Word: mignone
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...than, its second. Every performance (reflecting the current boom in Manhattan show business) was a sellout. Many foreign singers would continue to be missed. Only new singer to raise a ripple of anticipation was the 18-year-old coloratura Patrice Munsel (TIME, Nov. 22), scheduled for a debut in Mignon. The Met's brightest stars this year, as last, were its conductors. The first week included an exquisitely polished Tristan (Sir Thomas Beecham), a brilliant Rosenkavalier (George Szell...
Handsome Pepe, wed in 1942 at San Diego to blonde Mignon Summers, onetime Powers model, aroused President Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Rio's ire early this year. Enthusiastically, the six-foot novillero of the bull ring and artillery lieutenant (V.M.I.-educated, Fort Sill-trained) had started to stump Ecuador in opposition to administration candidates for Congress. Opening at Riobamba, Pepe and cohorts were moving on to Ambato when a platoon of corabineros popped up and arrested them. Given 24 hours to get out of Ecuador, stubborn Pepe balked and a 40-soldier escort literally carried him over the border...
Friday Evening May 14 Overture to "Mignon" "The Ride of the Valkyrion" Gorshwinian, Fantasy on Gershwin Melodies Saturday Evening, May 15 "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (After a Ballad of Goethe) "Marche Slave" Fantasia" Aida" Salute to Our Fighting Forces Arranged by Halls of Montezuma-Semper Army Air Corps-Anchors As the Caissons Go Rolling Along God Bless America Sunday Evening, May 16 Overture on Three Greek Themes, Op. 3 Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 Streets of Pekin (Chinese Impressions...
...WOLF IN MAN'S CLOTHING - Mignon G. Eberhart-Random House ($2). Nurse Sarah Keate-Mrs. Eberhart's major contribution to mystery story personalities-returns, accompanied by a sister nurse with a past. An expertly wrought, well-characterized, highly emotional tale of "accidental" shooting, purposeful poisoning and deep dark villainy in a secluded Berkshire mansion...
...FOURTH MYSTERY BOOK-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Six mystery novellas by such practiced hands as Mary Roberts Rinehart, Mignon Eberhart, Hugh Pentecost, and one newcomer, Dana Lyon, who turns in the best item, I'll Be Glad When You're Dead. An omnibus book that is right up to its predecessors in quality and quantity...