Word: grands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...side, General Franco formed his own 20-man Junta, modeled on Italy's Fascist Grand Council, to help him rule Spain's Rightist territories and eventually "to supplant the Madrid-Valencia Government." All political parties were outlawed by General Franco except the one under his command, which received this impressive title: The Spanish Phalanx of Traditionalists and Offensive National Syndicalist Juntas...
...horse was Bozo, a big rangy hunter in a big box stall looking out over the rolling hills of Tennessee's fertile Harpeth Valley. The man, owner of the horse, was slight, black-haired James Geddes Stahlman, 44, publisher of the Nashville, Tenn. Banner. He was in the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan where the 51st annual meeting of the American Newspaper Publishers Association had just elected him its president...
...distinguished Britons and foreigners as distinguished. Peppery old Sir Thomas Beecham waved his baton. The curtain rose on a storm-tossed ship, the first scene in Verdi's Otello. Tenor Giovanni Martinelli of the Metropolitan sang his first role at Covent Garden since 1914. The Coronation season of grand opera began...
Covent Garden is grateful to Sir Thomas, for managing what should be its most successful opera season. For the first time in their history the Paris Grand Opera and Opéra-Comique will assist there. Metropolitan participants alone include Kirsten Flagstad. Gina Cigna, Kerstin Thorborg. Lauritz Melchior and John Brownlee as well as Tibbett and Martinelli. Sir Thomas once lost ?1,000,000 of his own in opera. Aloof, disdainful, he ignores summonses and hotel bills, brings audiences to their feet when he leads the London Philharmonic, estranges them when he calls Britons the most unmusical people...
...Boxes on the grand tier cost anywhere from $550 to $2.750 for the season. Those who cannot afford the Covent Garden productions will have their own Coronation season of operas at Sadler's Wells Theatre in North London. These will be sung in English, include Vaughan Williams' Hugh the Drover and Gertrude Stein's first ballet, The Wedding Bouquet...