Word: hoffmann
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Farrell then told about the discus champions in America. Houser, Hoffmann and Hartranft have all thrown the plate at least 150 feet. The best which Europe can show is the German, Hanchen's, 149 foot shot. Others are all under 146 feet. We will more than hold our own in that event," Farrell added, "and I can say the same of the broad jump...
With razz-mu-tazzling plays, bucks, feints, and formations as intricate as a sorority cheer, Stanford University, particularly helped by a giant back named Hoffmann, bewildered the bisons of Southern California...
Mary Lewis is tall, dark. Her eyelashes are longer than those of most opera stars, her ankles slimmer. Her face is pretty in the strong sun of midday. She has 15 parts in her repertoire, including Louise, Manon, Marguerite, Mimi, Gilda (in Rigoletto), Antonia (in the Tales of Hoffmann), and Thais...
...opening of the second week at the Metropolitan was no less a triumph for Maria Jeritza, Lohenarin her medium. Other features of the second lap of the season in that temple of patrician appreciation were Andrea Chenier and The Tales of Hoffmann (revival)-well-tried pieces both...
Other productions will include Bizet's Pearl Fishers, Montemezzi's Love of Three Kings, Debussy's Pélleas et Mélisande, Auber's Fra Diavolo, Meyerbeer's Prophet, Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann. Entirely new stage sets have been built for several of these. Among the singers there will appear Mary Garden (of course), Louise Homer, Florence Macbeth, Edith Mason, Charles Hackett, Feodor Chaliapin...