Word: jongleur
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...Company opened its season with a sold-out house and a smart list of boxholders which included names like Curtis, Biddle, Lorimer and Pianist Josef Hofmann. Aïda was the first opera with Italian Tenor Aroldo Lindi, Soprano Anne Roselle, Contralto Cyrena Van Gordon, Conductor Emil Mlynarski. Le Jongleur de Notre Dame followed last week with Mary Garden again casting her curious spell as the pale, questioning little juggler, Baritone Chief Caupolican (a South American Indian) as the kindly, understanding monk, able Eugene Goossens conducting. Both performances were consistently excellent. Minor parts were capably taken, the orchestra played smoothly...
...opera "Le Jongleur de Notre Dame" by Massenet, will be given tonight at the Boston Opera House by members of the Civic Opera Company. This is the fifth night of the company's stay, which will end Saturday week. Singing in "Le Jongleur de Notre Dame" will be Mary Garden. Cesare Formichi, Edouard Cotreuil, and Virgilio Lazzari. Although there are no tickets for the opera tonight, several seats may still be had for some of the operas next week...
...gainsay Novelist Ford's estimate of Poet Pound. As criticism it is a foolish phrase. But it is certain that Ezra Pound is ... a poet that doth drink life As lesser men drink wine. He has been mad through the mountains of Cabaret with Peire Vidal, maddest jongleur of the old time. For the marriage at Cana in Galilee he has written a dance figure that is, so far as one can feel, no less lovely than any marriage ever was. In his swift, light, swirling pages are a host of echoes -of tall women and barbecues in Troy...
...fall a complete French ensemble to produce grand and light opera, would present first in Manhattan, then in other important cities, several French novelties which have been given lately in Paris and Monte Carlo in addition to such standard works as Carmen, Louise, Salome, Thais, Faust, Manon, Zaza, Le Jongleur de Notre Dame, Romeo et Juliette and Scuppho...
...atomic structures of stars not yet named; but he exploited with marvelous eloquence the romance of the stars. Under the big tent top of heaven he, a circus barker, shouted the seductions of Venus, the deformities of Mercury, the spots, habits, abilities of Uranus, Jupiter, Neptune. He was the jongleur of the Milky...