Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Grand Jury investigation following the explosion, Braden was convicted of bombing his house for his own political ends and was sentenced, under a rarely-used sedition law, to 15 years in jail and a $5000 fine. He will speak on the significance of this case in civil rights...
Mollet's choice of a new minister for Algeria suggested the line he hoped to follow. Leathery old (79) General Georges Catroux, Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honor, has an unfortunate linkage in French minds with the French withdrawals from Syria, Lebanon and, in its first stages, the loss of Indo-China. When he accepted responsibility for Algeria last week, Catroux came out stoutly for a loosening of French authority over Algerians. "Algeria," said he, "cannot be treated like a French province. We must think of a statute that will give satisfaction to the Algerian personality. For example...
Gourmets to the last, the newspapers of Paris printed up special menus "pour le grand froid." Their recommendation: plenty of red meat and fresh vegetables. Movie houses and theaters canceled their shows. The hydraulic elevators at the Eiffel Tower refused to work, and even the doughty and haughty clochards (the hobos of Paris) sought shelter in the stations of their ancient enemies, the police...
First came a spell with a Gilbert & Sullivan road show. Then she starred in a coast-to-coast Merry Widow company, moved on to a grand opera touring company (63 Micaëlas in Carmen, 45 Violettas in Traviata), where, before long, she had to learn how to intercept passes from forward tenors without missing a note. For a while, she learned a role a month for TV's Opera Cameos, finally hit the big time two seasons ago when she sang Donna Elvira in the San Francisco Opera's Don Giovanni ("the most exquisitely sung aria...
Though she yearned for the Metropolitan, Soprano Sills had to settle for the less prestigious New York City Opera, last fall sang two leading parts there (in Fledermaus and Golden Slippers). Last month with the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company she sang the lead in Montemezzi's The Love of the Three Kings, and likes to recall that she literally brought down the house; during her final exit, part of the ceiling collapsed. All that remained was for her to be discovered by a big-time impresario. She was. Luben Vichey, Met basso lately turned concert manager, took her under...