Word: mazeppa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bride. A memory of her first love drove her from Menken's hearth, but later gave morbid ardor to her acting of Lady Macbeth in New Orleans. In New York she became a poetess and the wife of Heavyweight Champion John C. Heenan. Her acting in Mazeppa brought her fame. This was the sensational play wherein, as a Tartar boy, she wore the first boyish bob on the New York stage. The place was the Bowery Theatre, lately burned down. Part of her part every night was to let herself be strapped quasi-nude to the back...
...program follows: 1. Overture to "Ali Baba" Cherubini 2. Concerto in D Major, Opp 77 Brahms 3. Prelude to a Drama Schreker 4. "Mazeppa", Symphonic Poem No. 6 Liszt...
Among letters and manuscripts, there are a letter by Ruper Brooke; a manuscript of Arthur Symonds; pamphlets of the Earl of Rochester, the abridged editions of which were not allowed in this country; and original pamphlets of Ryron's. "Don Juan," "Mazeppa," and "Manfred." A volume which should be of interest to everyone is a first presentation edition of "When We Were Very Young," signed by the author and Christopher Robin with letters from both and signed photographs of Christopher Robin and Winnie-the-Pooth...
...Olin Downes, Musical Critic of the Boston Post, will deliver the last Russian Opera lecture this afternoon at 5.30 in the Lecture Room of the Boston Public Library. His topics will be "Mazeppa". "Christmas Eve", and "Night of Love...