Word: marias
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Copenhagen, Maria Jeritza (Baroness von Popper), famed "golden" soprano of the Metropolitan, sang in Tosca twice, Carmen once, Tannhauser once. Contrary to their polite custom of appearing at only one performance in an operatic series, the King and Queen of Denmark, dressed in their bravest regalia, sat in their box every time Jeritza sang. The King gave the singer a decoration encased in a gold medallion and asked her to attend an intimate family party at the palace after her first performance. This Mme. von Popper did with dignity and delight...
...following program will be presented at the Pops Concert in Symphony Hall tonight, starting at 8.15 o'clock: Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Nicolai Ave Maria Shubert-Wilhelmj Bacchanale, "Samson and Delilah" Saint-Shens College Songs Algerian Suite Saint-Saena Spring Grieg "Pacific 2 3 1" Honegger Overture to "Rienzi" Wagney "Espana," Rhapsody Chabrier Waltz, "Artist's Life" Strauss Ride of the Valkyries Wagner
Since the stirring days when Pilsudski was engaged in clandestine Socialist activities, he has been assisted by the present Madame Pilsudska, a woman of culture, charm and quickening ideas. Gifted with a pliant temperament, she got on excellently well with the Marshal's first wife, the late Maria Litinska Pilsudska, who was her husband's first collaborator in the secret and dangerous work of putting forth a Socialist newspaper Robotnik (The Workman) under the pre-War Tsarist régime in Poland...
...went on raising him, ?100 or more at a time. When Dr. Rosenbach bid ?1,500, Mr. Maggs kept silent and the auctioneer announced that Dr. Rosenbach had bought a first edition copy of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, inscribed by the author to his friend, Mrs. Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, author of John Halifax, Gentleman. Then the auctioneer raised his hand and lowered his voice...
...Maria goes now the golden bell. Sportingly President-Hainisch declared last week, that he is glad, not sorry. He is glad because Austria has become, during the past few weeks, a milk exporting country. This development, thinks kindly President Hainisch, is due in part to the interest which he has excited among Austrians in Bella and consequently in dairying. Bella has now lost her bell, but Austria has gained a new export industry...