Word: gwyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Covent Garden is London's vegetable market and its opera centre. For centuries it has been the playhouse centre too. Charles II lost his heart there to an actress named Nell Gwyn. Last winter a more reckless King lost his crown, and for his brother, who will be anointed this month, all Britain is preparing elaborate celebrations. None will be prouder than that of the Covent Garden Opera. For a month painters, carpenters and electricians have busied themselves inside the Opera House...
...Military PolonaiseChopin-Glazounoy *Overture, "Raymond" Thomas "Whispering of the Flowers" Blon *Suite from "Nell Gwyn" German *Eight Russian Folk Songs Liadov *Finale of the Fourth Symphony Tchsikovsky Orphean Club of Lasell Junior College George Sawyer Dunham, Conductor *Selection, "Anything Goes" Cole Porter *"Jolly Fellows,"Waltzes Volstedi *Fifth Hungarian Dance Brahins Selections checked (*) are available on records at Bridge & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square
...Nell Gwyn, famous English actress and mistress of Charles II who worked her way into the Drury Lane Theatre group by gelling oranges, and David Garrick, a member of Dr. Johnson's group and renowned for his Shakespeare characterizations, are only two of the portraits on view in the Widener Theatrical Collection located on the top floor of Widener...
Wednesday Evening, May 16 *"Lohengrin," Introduction to Act III Wagner *"Der Rosenkavalier," Waltzes Strauss Schumann *Traumerei "Maximilian Robespierre," Overture Litolff *"Nell Gwyn," Suite German *Large from the "New World" Symphony Dvorak *First Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt *"The Princess and the Frog King" (Overture, "Si j'etais Roi") Thomas Hans Wiener and his Dance Group "The Street Dancers" ("Blues") Krenek Hans Wiener and Kay Pope "The Butcher, the Baker, and the Candlestick Maker" ("Night in Venice," Overture) Strauss...
Other able performers included: ¶Sweden's Lieut. Sachs who, after his mount fell at a barrier and nearly rolled over him, got up and took the next five jumps without a fault. ¶Miss Mary Gwyn Fiers's nine-year-old chestnut mare Roxie Highland, which won the three-gaited stake, at which no horse has beaten her for three years. ¶Mrs. M. Robert Guggenheim's chestnut gelding Firenze Fairfax, champion jumper of the meet, which won 50 ribbons...