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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clara Leiser, author of JEAN DE RESZKE AND THE GREAT DAYS OF OPERA, just published by Minton, Balch & Company, admits to some rather amazing experiences in gathering material for the book. Following her published request for information about Jean and Edouard de Reszke, her correspondence grew to a point where she had to have a full time stenographer to handle it. Offers of marriage, free singing lessons, and invitations to collaborate on books which other teachers and singers wanted to write, poured in. One of Edouard's girl friends changed her will so that all the photographs, jewelry, letters...
...widow at 34. Thereafter under the guidance of a confessor, who later became St. Vincent de Paul, Mme Le Gras devoted herself to good works. In 1633 she gathered about her four young women whom she trained in caring for the poor. Out of this community grew the Daughters (or Sisters) of Charity-first active, non-contemplative order of women. Mme Le Gras founded schools, foundling homes, homes for the aged and, in 1640, a hospital. In Poland in 1646 the Sisters of Charity were the first women ever to nurse the wounded on a battlefield...
That seemed safe enough. Many aquatic mammals-whales,*dolphins, porpoises-belong to the order of cetacea. Thereupon Professor Corbiere grew bold. "If I dare risk a hypothesis," he ventured. "I would say that we have here a kind of hyperoodon from the North Atlantic...
George Antheil branded himself seven years ago as the most freakish of U. S. composers. He grew up in Trenton, N. J., went to Paris to live when he was 20. After six years he celebrated his homecoming by putting on in Manhattan his Ballet Mecanique with ten pianos, wind machines, an airplane propeller, assorted horns, whistles and bells. The critics' jeers drove him back to Paris. Lately he claimed that he had reformed. Helen Retires was to illustrate his conversion to melody. But basically most of its music seemed just as empty as his percussive ballet. The student...
...Prague, Czechoslovakia, deformed Chemist Josef Kopriva was snubbed by cold-hearted Typist Marie Stanovich. Sly Josef Kopriva coated numeral key 7 of Marie Stanovich's typewriter with slow-poisoning radium, watched day by day as pains grew worse in her hands and wrists, tits of blindness seized her. finally confessed he had tried to kill...