Word: martha
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lucia will open the Brooklyn season the same night, with Marion Talley the witless Lucy. Die Meistersinger will come next in Manhattan, then The Jewels of the Madonna, Martha, Faust for Saturday night and, in the afternoon, Mozart's The Magic Flute, first revival of the season...
...Martha Washington. "In any case, the meeting with Martha was a blessing to him [Washington]. He was none of your intellectuals himself, no bookworm. He had gone through years of loneliness in rain and snow, in horror, bloodshed and defeat. He needed above all things a plump little widow to take him to her soft breast and give him repose and the luxury of a home. If he could not give her the passionate ardor of his first love, neither could she give him hers...
...Francisco Grand Opera Association, well scrubbed politically and artistically, gave last week in the Civic Auditorium the first of twelve performances that will make up its fourth annual season. Martha was the happy choice, had worthy treatment by the imported principals, the domestic chorus. All praise went to Musical Director Gaetano Merola who conducted. Otto H. Kahn was there, guest of Robert I. Bentley, head of the local organization, spoke, as is his wont, said in effect what he has said many times before, that the time will come before long when great and now frequently wasted U. S. opera...
...hair, freckles; attired in a cotton shirt and overalls. Occasionally a promising dip of his long fishpole caused his eyes to sparkle momentarily; occasionally an intrepid fly was rewarded with an energetic slap. . . . Occasionallv, too, he shot a glance of stern disapproval across the wharf, where the Courtney children-Martha, four, and Jane, six-romped carelessly. Suddenly, simultaneous shrieks rent the air, mingling with the splash of water. Two struggling figures swept beneath the projecting fishpole. The boy jumped. Seizing one girl by the hair, setting his teeth into the dress of the other, he floated both until help came...
...through Italy and on to a quiet Swiss resort. The Tsar is 32. During the two decades of his adolescence and manhood there have been persistent rumors that he may marry. Why not? Last week rumors ran that he is "about to espouse a Swedish princess" (Astrid, 25, Martha, 20, and Ingrid, 16, are all available); and of course he might marry, said the rumormongers, Princess Giovanna, 19, but surely not Princess Maria, 12, of Italy. The press of the world has grown habituated to making itself ridiculous over Tsar Boris...