Word: madly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seventy people watched and heard. One of them, a man, raved in anguish as though he would go mad. He was Stefan Todor, confessed "lover" and sole heir of 46-year-old Frau Kardos who was reputed wealthy. She had refused him any word of affection or consolation before she went to Death. Groaning and raving, he climbed at last into his sleigh, drove off to the mocking tune of jingle bells...
...appearing as befits an opera heroine who must die of grief, graceful, chicly costumed. Her first singing was uneven but after villainous Lord Ashton (Baritone Giuseppe de Luca) had driven her to her wits' end with his connivings against her lover (Tenor Beniamino Gigli) she found her stride. The Mad Scene, given in the key of F instead of a tone lower as is usually the case, was superbly sung. Difficult chromatic runs and arpeggios done with the greatest ease, trills and staccati true to pitch (coloraturas are inclined to sing off-key), a high E flat clearly sung...
...Metropolitan Opera House. A beggar walked on stage leading a dog with a BLIND sign around its neck and the audience guffawed when it was told that the dog was blind, not the master. Little George Meader caused a big laugh when he appeared made up as the Mad Hatter, tripped over a carpet bag, played a serenade on a red silk umbrella. Tenor Walther Kirchhoff was no funnier than usual but the audience snickered when he came out carrying a sun flower. Occasional exclamations escaped in English: "Sure!", "Sonny Boy!", "Whoopee...
...received the best news and the worst. Whenever the panicky politicians in Paris telephoned him, the sound of his voice and what he said was always reassuring. It is for that that "the people" are still grateful. They feel that without Joffre in 1914 they might have gone mad. Of the victory at the Marne, Marshal Joffre said a few months ago putting volumes into the words: "If I had lost, how many people do you think would have claimed that they lost...
...Carolina University sophomore, sportive son of Vice President William Donald Carmichael of Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., had the New York Evening Graphic (tabloid) run off 200 copies of its tabloid front page bearing a photograph of himself tearing his hair (see cut} under the headline: BOB CARMICHAEL GOES MAD SEARCHING FOR XMAS CARD and over the caption: "BOBBY CARMICHAEL yesterday went crazy working on an idea for a Christmas card. His last words were: 'Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!' You see him above as he appeared in padded cell at Bellevue, to which he was rushed...