Word: metropolitanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current attraction at the Metropolitan, "The River Pirate" is--a good picture. But it is not so good a picture as it ought to be; it is a bit like an unlighted cigar--all best Havana, but lacks the spark...
Four years ago it was a full-blown opera singer who came back to the U.S., got an engagement with the Boston Opera Company, later with the San Carlo. Last week came her great triumph when she made her debut in a leading role at the Metropolitan. Papa Angelo was there, wiping away proud tears, and Mayor Michael Landers of Lawrence, to give the stamp of civic authority. Twelve times the audience called her out in front of the great gold curtains, thundered its applause. Next day a typical story named her as "the latest American Cinderella to find...
...opera house. She has had operatic experience, sings and moves with an assurance that projects over the footlights. Her first Leonora quavered occasionally, strayed a bit from the pitch but critics took it all kindly, as part of a debut performance, voted her a useful addition to the Metropolitan roster...
...land of Acre," the Metropolitan Museum of Art has found better examples of 12th and 13th century A.D. war, commercial and household goods than it had been able to find in Europe, where such things have been destroyed, lost or remodeled. Palestine, in those bleak centuries, was a European province. Leading crusaders lived luxuriously and busily. When the Mohammedans finally drove them out, their goods were abandoned. Looters could not find them all. Hence the Metropolitan Museum's delvers made rich cultural finds at the isolated fortress of Montfort, old headquarters of the Hospitalers of Our Lady...
...Singing Fool (records everywhere), Wings ($7,000, Valencia, Baltimore), Two Lovers ($24,000, Loew's State, Providence), Lilac Time ($11,000, Metropolitan, Washington...