Word: grand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago hears more and better French opera than Manhattan,* Manhattan more and better German opera. Recently a German Grand Opera Company arrived in Manhattan and advertised that it would give Wagner's Ring operas uncut, "according to the traditions of Bayreuth." Manhattan's critics were unanimously offended by the inferiority of the productions (TIME, Jan. 28) and the company left town. Last fortnight the same company gave performances in Chicago. After the Rheingold, the first in Chicago for more than a decade, Chicago seemed unanimously pleased. Critic Maurice Rosenfeld of the Chicago Daily News wrote: "The company began...
That incomparably prolific and reliable writer of detective stories, J. F. Fletcher, publishes four stories simultaneously, all highly readable: The Ransom for London (Dial, $2) is scientific crockery on the grand scale?death comes mysteriously to the Prime Minister's prize bulls and to a party of 19 toffs, before the Deadly Three are scotched without their ransom. The House in Tuesday Market (Knopf, $2) has for clues three cigars and a scrap of pink paper, but psychic waves, deadly chemicals, and amateur theatricals find them sufficient. The Secret of Secrets (Clode, $2) is a purely scientific invention...
Tucked away behind the snow-capped peaks of Asiatic Turkey, the Grand National Assembly at Angora passed a bill ruthlessly expelling from the Government services any official who has or takes a non-Turkish wife...
Traditionally the principal backer of the Greek Republic has been London's huge Hambros Bank, Ltd. Recently it has been rumored that Hambros has been trying to coerce the grand, foxy old man of Greece, Eleutherios Venizelos, into concluding an agreement which would give it an absolute monopoly of Greek public financing...
...Staatsoper in Vienna, last week, received a big bundle labeled by the Austrian customs "clothes and horse harness." Opened, the bundle proved to be the complete outfit of a U. S. cowgirl, sent by Richard Schweppe of Los Angeles. Mr. Schweppe is vice president of the Los Angeles Civic Grand Opera Company. In a letter to the Staatsoper, he explained that, ever since seeing Soprano Maria Jeritza last spring in Vienna in Puccini's Girl of the Golden West, he had been disturbed by inaccuracies in her costume and unable to resist sending a genuine...