Word: leon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week began Ravinia's 19th season, with a personnel including such international figures as Sopranos Lucrezia Bori and Elisabeth Rethberg, Tenors Edward Johnson and Giovanni Martinelli, Basso Leon Rothier. Again its conductors are Gennaro Papi and Louis Hasselmans, its chief dancer Ruth Page. Again the orchestra is taken from the Chicago Symphony. The repertoire will be chosen from 40 or more operas. New this year: Vittadini's Anima Allegra to be given with Bori, Smetana's The Bartered Bride with Rethberg, Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots with Soprano Yvonne Gall, leading soprano of the Paris Opera...
...England Federation of Harvard Clubs. President: Robert H. Hallowell '96, 60 State St., Boston. Vice-President: Fordyce T. Blake '12, 340 Main St., Worcester. Secretary: Leon M. Little '10, 135 Devonshire St., Boston Treasurer: Henry S. Thompson '99, Concord...
Deputy Board Chairman Leon Fraser...
...disc on the M. I. T. instrument was keyed to a three-octave board, reproduced deep pipe organ notes. Unlike Leon Sergeievitch Theremin's "ether music" box (TIME, Sept. 30), Hardy & Brown's development does not slide from one note to another, slurring the intervening ones...
...Parade. This is one of those elaborate miscellanies with which the big production companies utilize the spare time of the stars on contract to them. It is an unusually good one-rapid, handsome, brightened with flashes of wit probably put in by Elsie Janis, who supervised it. After Leon Errol has put on a hilarious act on a hospital cot, trying to roll himself into a three-quarter blanket, the audience is informed that he was just "dying to introduce the next sketch." The usual parodies include a mystery story with Clive Brook as Sherlock Holmes and William Powell...