Word: metropolitanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sixteen pieces of Gothic tapestry, loaned to the Metropolitan Museum of Art by their owners, were last week hung for the public to look upon until the middle of September. Of the 16, all fabulously costly and all curiously beautiful, six were the most beautiful and the most costly. These were the pieces in the series called The Hunt of The Unicorn, owned by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. Their worth was greater than $1,100,000; millefleurs tapestries, their backgrounds were filled with flowers...
...Carmen Reggio, obscure concert singer, last week wagered the Italian Artists' Alliance (of which Titta Ruffo, famed Metropolitan baritone, is president) that she could walk up stairs in less than half an hour. Mme. Reggio is 38 years old, she weighs 104 pounds, and the stairs to which she referred were the 1.358 steps of the 792-foot Woolworth Building, in Manhattan...
...Metropolitan--W. C. Fields and Chester Conklin in "Fools For Luck"'. Funny in spots, but not what one ought to get from two comedians as good as these...
...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...
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