Word: irises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philadelphia has stolen an operatic march on Manhattan. While the Metropolitan was lavishing its resources last week on the revival of Pietro Mascagni's sleazy Iris (Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg, Tenor Beniamino Gigli), the enterprising Opera Company which Mary Louise Curtis Bok finances in Philadelphia was absorbed in preparations for...
Several months ago, Dr. John Kunkel Small of the New York Botanical Garden took a train ride through the Mississippi delta, looked out of the window with his knowing botanical eye at the lush growth of the southern swamps. Suddenly he saw something which made him want to stop the...
Last week, Dr. Small returned to New York to take care of his gargantuan flower garden. Iris plants, of which there are more than 200 species, ordinarily do not grow taller than three feet. One of the smallest known, a Chinese variety, is only three inches in height. Dr. Small...
Operas new to the list are Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson (TIME, July 28), Felice Lattuada's Preziose Ridicole, Moussorgsky's unfinished Fair at Sorotchinsk, Franz von Suppé's Boccaccio, Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, Mascagni's Iris, Rossini's William Tell...
¶ Tycoon, Clifford D. Mallory's 12-metre sailing yacht: a 19-mile race from William Vincent Astor's Iris in the opening regatta of the Long Island Sound championships off Rye, N. Y.