Word: metropolitanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nationwide suspicion that had just attached itself to one of the guests, President Coolidge attended a dinner-last of its kind this season-given for him by Secretary of Labor James John Davis & Mrs. Davis. Among the guests were Senator Capper of Kansas, Mr. & Mrs. Haley Fiske (Metropolitan Life Insurance), Mr. & Mrs. Edward Hines (Evanston, Ill., lumber), Alexander Pollock Moore and Will H. Hays...
...Puccini. Puccini, himself light-minded at the time, applied a handful of tunes, spliced them in his own skillful way and the result was a "lyric comedy in three acts" that had an indifferent sort of premiere at Monte Carlo in 1917. Last week and by courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera Company it was given its first performance...
...intentions prove a little too honorable-and the swallow flies back home. Unlike the earlier Puccini scores, the element of tragedy is missing from the soft, curving arias and duets. Unlike Monte Carlo, the whole was almost reclaimed last week in Manhattan by the altogether pleasant production at the Metropolitan-by the gay, graceful Magda of Lucrezia Bori, by the caricatured poet of Armand Tokatyan, the brilliant Second Empire settings of Joseph Urban. Only Beniamino Gigli stayed out of picture. Squat and pompous he sang beautifully as the love-soaked Ruggiero...
...Hair", the offering which opened yesterday at the Metropolitan, had as its first shot a color photo of Clara Bow feeding fish to a tired pelican. The point wasn't wholly clear to us at the moment, but just a little more of Clara Bow made the allegory oh, so clear. Elinor Glyn wrote it, Clara Bow acts in it, and there you are. Bubbles McCoy (and you can go ahead and guess who in Hollywood would play a part with a name like that) has an opportunity to do plenty of the familiar pouting, and the unintimate undressing that...
...Philadelphia, it became general talk that plans were on foot for a $15,000,000 opera house to have two auditoriums-one of 3,500-4,000 capacity for orchestral concerts, for the Philadelphia Grand Opera Company and for visits of the Metropolitan; the other of 1,200-1,500 for the Philadelphia forum and intimate recitals...