Word: mlle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mlle. Sorel, the renowned leading woman of the Comedie Francaise, is to follow Georges Clemenceau as a visitor to Boston this week. On Monday night Mlle. Sorel and her associates from the first French National Theatre, M. Albert Lambert and M. Louis Ravet, will begin a week's engagement at the Boston Opera House, presenting modern and classic dramatic masterpieces in French, opening in Emile Augier's "L'Aventurlere...
...Sardar Ippolitov-Ivanov 2 Overture, "Poet and Peasant" Suppe 3 Waltz, "Girls of Baden" Komzak 4 Fantasia, "Faust" Gounod 5 Dance of the Hours from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli 6 Ave Maria Schubert 7 Whispering of the Flowers Blon 8 Bacchanale from "Samson and Delilah" Saint-Saens 9 Selection, "Mlle. Modiste" Herbert 10 Waltz, "Wine, Woman and Song" Strauss 11 Introduction, Act 3, "Lohengrin" Wagner
...aggravating to have a fascinating French comtesse describe in minute detail her sensations when for the first time her lips approached that world-famous American drink--the cocktail. This tantalising incident occurs in "A Frenchwoman's Impressions of America" by Comtesse Madeleine de Bryas and her sister Mlle. Jacqueline de Bryas, published by The Century Co. In order that a rising generation of young Americans may not grow up in darkest ignorance (and for that reason only), we reprint the Comtesse's stimulating account of her debacle...