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...been a bitter trick played on his two partners, villains both. These two worked their way to prosperity as American bootleggers, and came at last to London, still snarling and snorting for revenge. Their sophisticated method was the slow, subtle torture of intimidation; their exquisite object, that black-eyed mignon, Ardrington's adopted daughter. They employed for their villainous purposes thugs from London's underworld, and a beautiful Spanish matron whom they installed at the Ritz. But they had not reckoned with Martin's cool audacity, nor his marriageability, nor the girl he loved. And they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Suave Agility | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...following program will be given at the Pops concert in Symphony Hall at 8.15 o'clock tonight: Overture to "Mignon" Thomas Valse triste Sibelius Ballet Suite, "Sylvia" Delibes a. Les Chasseresses b. Pizzicati c. Intermezzo of Valse leute d. Cortege de Bacchus Prelude to "The Mastersingers of Nuremburg" Wagner Funeral Music of Stegfried from "The Dusk of the Gods" Wagner Overture to "Tannhauser" Wagner Suite from "Carmen" Wagner a. Intermezzo b. The Dragoons of Alcala c. Prelude to Act 1 Russian Lullaby Berlin March, "Lorraine" Ganne

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At the Pops Tonight | 6/7/1928 | See Source »

...following program will be given at the Pops concert in Symphony Hall at 8.15 o'clock tonight: Entrance of the Gladiators Fucik Overture to "Mignon" Thomas Ave Maria Schubert-Wilhelmi Fantasia, "Aida" Verdi Ballet of the Hours from "Gloconda" Ponchielli The Lost Chord Sullivan (Trumpet solo: Georges Mager) Mississippi Suite Grofe a. Father of Waters b. Huckleberry Finn c. Old Creole Days d. Mardi Gras Selection, "Good News" De Sylva Waltz, "Jolly Fellows" Vollstedt American Patrol Meacham Stein Song

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At the Pops Tonight | 6/1/1928 | See Source »

...following program will be rendered at the Pops concert tonight, starting at 8.15 o'clock: Overture to "Mignon" Thomas Intermezzo from "Goyescas" Grandados Ballet Suite, "Sylvia" Delibes a Les Chasseresses b Intermezzo et Valse lente c Pizzicati d Cortege de Bacchus Suite from "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mendelssohn a Overture b Scherzo c Wedding March Symphonic Poem, "Dause Macabre" Saint-Saens Oriental Fantasy, "Islamey" Balakirev Waltz, "By the Beautiful Blue Danube" Strauss Marche Slave Tchaikovsky

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: At the Pops Tonight | 5/18/1928 | See Source »

...stiff shirts or strings of pearls; French Ambassador Paul Claudel was advertised as a patron. On the stage appeared Mary Lewis and Jeanne Gordon of the Metropolitan; famed French tenor Maurice Capitaine, sent specially for the occasion by the French Ministry of Fine Arts, had arrived the day before Mignon. Plaudits for him perhaps surpassed those tendered Novelist-singer Christmas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mrs. Christmas | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

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