Word: knights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first act's duet with Soprano Licia Albanese, closed on a lower E (as Puccini wrote it) instead of the flashier high C he likes to exit on at the Met. Surprise star of the show was Toscanini's 20-year-old soprano find, Anne Me Knight (TIME...
After years of this, Manager Webster suffered a nervous breakdown and retired to the quiet countryside, where he spent his few remaining years carving ship models and looking at the stars through a telescope. Pope Leo XIII created him a Knight of the Order of Pius for publishing his biography. In later years, Uncle Sam once said acidly: "If the Pope made Webster a knight, he ought to have made him an archangel...
...Rossetti, Millais and Holman Hunt all came to pose, or admire, or talk shop with the artist, and to take tea in the cozy atmosphere provided by his "spiritual wives" (other men's wives who mothered him). His famed Hope, Fata Morgana, and Una and the Red Cross Knight, were elegant, Raphael-like and beautiful enough to stick in the public's mind. The boy who went to work as a sculptor's apprentice when he was ten was given degrees at Oxford and Cambridge, and grandly declined a baronetcy. His cup was running over when...
...read very little about it, and he was "terrified by the enormous size of the character. . . ." But he constantly remembered Falstaff's "I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men." No mere butt, no mere burlesque, Richardson's fat knight is a restrained, highly intelligent, altogether conscious comedian, an artful creator of merriment. Hence his final fall from grace seems not pathetic but tragic...
...Knight of the Rod. In Los Angeles, a holdup man took $80 from Attendant George Budelis, then telephoned Budelis' boss: "Look, pal ... I'm taking it at gunpoint, so don't fire George...