Word: maisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plantation songs from the South, descriptions of Boulder Dam and Bonneville Flats, the U. S. national anthem (La Bannière Par-semèe d'Etoiles}. Three broadcasts are devoted to New York City, describing everything from Harlem's dance halls to Wall Street ("la maison Morgan, voilá guelque chose...
...ending up by marrying her true lover, English diplomat Anthony Wayne. This commonplace plot is somewhat remedied by the acting of Francis and Rains, and in case you're interested in women's dresses, there's always the fashion show put on at the Maison Picot...
Whereupon, afternoon coming on, we to lunch at Maison Louis, which serves delicious unsalted butter, and by and by I alone to stroll along Fifth Avenue and was much surprised to meet---- whom I have not seen in five years and all in one breath she tells me she is married now and I ought to see the African Art Exhibition and the Flower Show and I ought to see her "Junior" too. We to see Junior, and the little one did want to come so much we all three to the Flower Show...
Conductor Artur Bodanzky presided diligently over the Metropolitan production. Belgian René Maison proved himself an actor in the role of Leonora's husband. Basso Emanuel List was at his best as the easy-going jailer. But it was Norway's Kirsten Flagstad who did most to make the performance a popular success. She sang the most taxing passages with uncommon skill and ease, acted with a simplicity completely suited to the music. Earlier in the season there were critics who feared for Flagstad's voice, wondered if she were not trying to work it too hard...
...Contralto Gertrud Wettergren is a favorite in her native Sweden. Tenor Charles Kullman (Yale, 1924) has done well for himself in Europe, as has Soprano Susanne Fischer of Sutton, W. Va., who will make her Metropolitan debut as Madame Butterfly. Two of the newcomers are Belgians : Tenor René Maison and Basso Hubert Raidich. Baritone Carlo Morelli is a Chilean, Eduard Habich, a German. Added to the U. S. contingent are Josephine Antoine, Hilda Burke, Charlotte Symons, Helen Oelheim, Julius Huehn, Dudley Marwick, Chase Baromeo, all with stage experience...