Word: lisa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best musical shows now current in New York are: Ziegfeld Follies, Greenwich Village Follies, Music Box Revue, Little Nellie Kelly, Caroline, Lisa...
...whirlwind casts of Lisa and Shuffle Along were caught, white-washed and turned loose again, they might give some idea of the pace of Go-Go. No white chorus ever went quite so fast before. There is a blare of trombones, a rattle of traps, a shriek of voices. For a while the audience holds its hand to its fevered brow, blinks agitatedly a few times, watches a few scenes fly by, shudders at a few clearly indicated jokes, and then it all seems to be over. The pace is terrifying...
...tremendous earnestness. Perhaps it is an earnestness without talent. Perhaps there may be a deeper talent in the music. Two new figures are prominent in the New York musical world- Barbara Kemp and Michael Bonen. Both, soprano and bass, made their debuts in the recent premier of Mona Lisa at the Metropolitan Opera House. Successive appearances in other works have confirmed the first impressions of their artistry. Kemp is an actress of power and subtlety. Vocally she is a gifted interpreter, though with a tone that is by no means the richest and most beautiful. She is the type...
...Gatti-Casazza, of the Metropolitan, is full of surprises. His latest was a performance, for the first time in America, of Schilling's Mona Lisa. The opera is an ingenious attempt to explain the smile on the face of Da Vinci's famous portrait. The prologue and epilogue present a young wife with her old husband, sight-seeing in Florence. Both parts are taken by newcomers to the Metropolitan - Barbara Kemp, of the Berlin Opera, and Michael Bohnen, of the Munich Opera. The roles are dual. In the two acts of the piece they appear as Mona Lisa...
...discovery of what may be a fashion model in Tutankhamen's last resting place. This is the life-size wooden statue of a young woman, coated over with plaster, and painted with an enigmatic smile which can only be compared to that of the comparatively young and blooming Mona Lisa. This inhabitant of Egypt, past and present, may be a likeness of her imperial majesty, Queen Ankhsenpaten, for she has gazed at the dead prince with a never-failing smile for more than a hundred generations--proof enough of devotion. But some skeptics claim that she is merely the model...