Word: mancha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which he was trying to ride from the Argentine to New York. The second horse carried a pack. They had crossed salt deserts, the high Andes, skirted Lake Titicaca, plunged through Ecuadorian jungles (where Mr. Tschiffley, whom the South American press had dubbed "Don Quixote de la Mancha," had to blanket the animals heavily to save them from vampire bats). He proposed passing through Texas, Kentucky, the Chicago stockyards, before exhibiting himself on Broadway. His purpose: to demonstrate the endurance of criollos, to promote an inter-continental rodeo between U. S. cowboys and Patagonian gauchos...
...basis of Cervantes' Don Quixote, cut and pieced by librettist Henri Cain, Jules Massenet wrote an opera, wrote it seeing Feodor Chaliapin, big Russian bass, craftiest of impersonators, as the noble moulting Don Quichotte de la Mancha, Baron, Duke and Knight of the Rueful Countenance...
...been hidden from the public eye. The public which looked upon them with as much delight as ever it looked on Robin Hood was denied their adventures-adventures as thrilling as those of Sir Launcelot, as those of Richard Coeur de Lion, as those of Don Quixote de la Mancha...
...interest to those who care for the better things of the stage is the announcement that Otis Skinner will appear at the Colonial Theatre, Boston, in Melchior Lengyel's satirical comedy, "Sancho-Panza", adapted from Miguel de Cervantes' famous story, "Don Quixote de la Mancha.", Mr. Skinner will come to the Colonial Theatre next Monday, January 7, direct from the Hudson Theatre, New York, for a limited engagement of three weeks. The entire supporting cast that shared with him the honors of the New York engagement, will appear in Boston...
Readers of this Bulletin are hereby offered a splendid opportunity to augment their libraries through the purchase of the following items. "The History of the Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha, Don Quixote." This work is standard, being translated from the Spanish by P. A. Motteux. It is a four volume set, the books being octavos and the plates used are those of Harper & Brothers. The volumes are bound sturdily in green cloth with paper labels. The price is $7.25 per set postpaid...