Word: lillies
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...followed much shaking of heads. Was not Norma 96 years old, relic of another age when song had been all-important and there were such phenomena as singers? Was not Norma the most exacting role ever set before a prima donna and had anyone ever done it justice since Lilli Lehmann last sang it at the Metropolitan...
...York Symphony is next oldest to the New York Philharmonic in the U. S. It has introduced to the U. S. such famed composers as Tchaikovsky, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Elgar, Rimsky-Korsakov; introduced such artists as Paderewski, Kreisler, Saint-Saens, Sarasate, Lilli Lehmann and Hans von Bulow. It has toured some 400,000 miles, played to 8,000,000. Harry Harkness Flagler is the sole guarantor...
...interest of Spaniards in matters of sport follows the King. Therefore, last week, the presence of King Alfonso at Wimbledon was almost equivalent to a royal cheering section f r the great Spanish net star Señorita Lilli de Alvarez. His Majesty did not cheer, but he watched, animated. She, warmly beautiful, vivacious, and compellingly feminine, came up, last week, in the women's singles finals against Miss Helen Wills. The contrast was between darting flames and scintillating ice. Serious, studious, book-writing, sketch-drawing Helen Wills seemed, in her stiff, skeletonized cap merely efficient. Señorita...
...Miss Wills and Señorita de Alvarez walked off the court, the new champion chanced to be a step behind at the gate. Señorita Lilli de Alvarez smiled in friendly fashion, stepped aside, and gestured for Miss Wills to pass. "Queens first!" she said...
...girl she defeated in the finals was Lilli de Alvarez, graceful, excitable, spectacular. Disregarding the convention which calls upon the virgin daughters of Spain to spend their evenings peeping from a barred window at the cloaked shape of a lover in the doorway opposite, Señorita Alvarez managed to make herself the most competent female stroke-player in the world, not excepting Lenglen. But the perfect execution of strokes does not necessarily mean matches won, and the play of Señorita Alvarez is always more thrilling than dependable. She will sacrifice many errors for an ace, she would...