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...with its predominant brasses. Stravinsky's smaller works would seem like sketches if it were not for his sure, crafty workmanship, his uncanny gift for making each instrument behave like a soloist. In March Boston will pass verdict on his ballet Persephone, lately produced in Paris by Dancer Ida Rubenstein...
Their repertory includes most of the old favorites: "The Gondoliers," "Iolanthe," the "Trial by Jury," The Pirates of Penzance," "The Yeomen of the Guard," "The Mikado," "Princess Ida," "Cox and Box," "H. M. S. Pinafore," and "Patience." Portions of many of these operettas have been sung by glee club members since time immemorial, and it is to be expected that some usually enterprising devotee of Gilbert and Sullivan will be so swept away as to join in the choruses from the audience...
Enrico Caruso was the tenor, Arturo Toscanini the conductor on that November night in 1908 when Giulio Gatti-Casazza mounted his first performance as manager of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company. The opera was A'ida, chosen by Gatti out of reverence for his friend and hero, Composer Giuseppe Verdi. Lately Gatti has been accused of being old-fashioned and reactionary. But last week as he began his farewell season at the Metropolitan, the sphinxy Gatti behaved as if he had never heard the carping. Again for the opening night he chose...
...State Supreme Court, the still higher State Court of Appeals asked and secured his appointment to sit with it to help clear a crowded calendar. He remained with that court until 1932, sitting after 1927 as its chief judge. A lifelong bachelor, he lived with his sister Ellen Ida until her death in 1929, gave his whole life to his profession. Diminutive, white-mopped Justice Cardozo is a scholar, an outstanding liberal, a humanitarian and an unusually modest man. The clarity and logic of his opinions make them among the most quoted...
...York City one morning two years ago Mrs. Ida Weiner, a public school teacher, went to her classroom, taught her moppets as usual. When she had finished, she proceeded to a hospital, bore a child. For this performance the City's Board of Education, whose bylaws require a teacher to begin a two-year, payless furlough as soon as she is aware of pregnancy, last week fined Teacher Weiner $300. Teacher Weiner's reported defense: not until the baby arrived did she know that she was pregnant...