Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Quoth the doughty "Temperance" to news gatherers: "I think there must be a large number of Russians in London because I sell so much vodka here. Englishmen are beginning to acquire a taste for it, too. Just at first it sometimes puts them under the table...
...Merry World. A combination revue from London and Manhattan landed loudly in the middle of a quiet week and pleased everybody. When the Shuberts finished producing The Great Temptations at the Winter Garden a few weeks back, they had left over a vast supply of brightly painted scenery, much music, several dances. These were hastily stuffed into an English revue which Albert de Courville was quietly concocting. The curious hybrid shook itself rapidly together and appeared as a most amusing creature. Sketches from London served most of the laughter, and there was a lot. Chorus girls from...
...gala night at Covent Garden, London. The King was there, so were the Queen with the old Dowager Countess of Minto, the Duke and the Duchess of Beaufort, he who was King Manuel and she who was Queen Augusta of Portugal, Prince Chichibu of Japan and a hundred other folk whom people jostle through crowds to glimpse. But it was not for the King or for the Queen that common folk had stood, many of them, some 20 hours in line, not for them especially that Covent Garden had preened itself to a pre-War splendor. It was for Nellie...
...shabby tweed audience replaced the pompous black. Yes, La Bohème was good. But so was Romeo et Juliette, which she had studied with Gounod himself-Gounod with his velvet skullcap and his velvet smoking jacket-Romeo et Juliette in which she had made her first successful London appearance with Jean de Reszke her Romeo, his brother Edouard the Friar. And there was Otello, fruit of Verdi's Indian-summer genius. She had sung Otello for the Master himself, an old man then like a gnarled tree, kindly, restrained, with bright, bright eyes and restless hands...
...ended my first experience of opera in London...