Word: idas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Debussy: Le Martyre de St.-Sébastién (Frances Yeend, soprano; Miriam Stewart, soprano; Anna Kaskas, contralto; Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra and Chorale, Victor Alessandro conducting; Allegro, 2 sides LP). Composed to a "mystery" of D'Annunzio for Dancer Ida Rubinstein, Le Martyre (1911) was itself martyred in an unsuccessful play, is rarely performed. It contains many a strange and beautiful bar, stands pretty well on its own in this first recording. Performance and recording: good...
Died. Countess Ida Coudenhove-Kalergi, fiftyish, onetime Viennese actress, longtime collaborator with her Austrian-Japanese husband, Count Richard Coudenhove-Kalergi, in his career as the founder and most articulate advocate of the Pan-European Union, designed to combat nationalism and prevent war; of a heart attack; in Nyon, Switzerland...
...bold bridegroom of Crete came up for trial last week. Although mustachioed Constantine Kephaloyannis had capped his spectacular kidnaping of Tassoula Petracogeorgi last August (TIME, Sept. 4) by marrying her in a lonely monastery on fabled Mount Ida, Tassoula's father was not appeased. He had the groom thrown in jail...
Died. Mrs. Ida Ringling North, 76, only sister of the Ringling brothers who founded Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Combined Shows Inc., mother of John Ringling North, the circus' current president; in Sarasota...
...didn't mind," chortled Edelman; but the rest of Dunster did. The eight Mount Ida voices carried, two dozen spectators walked in, a suspecting superintendent phoned, and within ten minutes the party was over...