Word: idas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born: Oct. 14, 1890, at Denison, Texas. His parents, David Jacob and Ida Elizabeth, had met at Lane University, a United Brethren school in Lecompton, Kans.; after failing in a general-store business at Hope, Kans., father David moved his family briefly to Texas, where he worked as a railroad hand, but soon returned to Kansas...
...Died. Ida B. Wise Smith, 80, who joined the Woman's Christian Temperance Union at 17, became its national president at 52, spent most of her adult life equating evil to alcohol and fighting for prohibition; in the State Mental Health Institute, Clarinda, Iowa, where she had been a patient since 1947. Hailing the U.S. dry era as "halcyon days," she firmly believed that prohibition would eventually come back to stay. Her credo: "I love God, my country and little children. I hate the liquor traffic and abhor all vice...
...calling and a coyote howling. Among the other 13 parts were such plaintive songs as Buffalo Bayou Song and Wild Geese Over Palestine, Texas, an item entitled Ride, Cowboy, Ride!, with staccato hoofbeats, and for a climax, a low-down blues piece called High Steppin' Lula Belle May Ida Brown of Lyons Avenue Steps...
...Metropolitan's Rigoletto had gone even longer (35 years) without new clothes than Aïida. Bing called in Painter-Designer Eugene Berman, and Berman's bright new costumes and sets were a perfect fit: they satisfied convention without slurring modernity. His solid 15th Century Italian ducal city glowed with faded pink marble and magnificent early Renaissance rooms; his costumes, like Aïda's, splashed with color...
Making up for her neglect of A'ida, Maggie Webster spent hours with score and libretto, and decided that there was more to it than mere heart-warming and blood-tingling melodrama-more than "Love, Jealousy and Sacrifice in capital letters." As in Don Carlo, she found in Aïda the "tragedy of individuals caught up in a conflict with the dictates of an autocracy." She also decided to start fresh with her stage direction, and not delve into the "encrustations of tradition...