Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gave Detroit a taste of her quality. Here are some comments, taken at random from the Detroit press: "But she has not much of a voice "; "a woman of courage"; "nasal squeaks"; "sad, hopeful, handsome, ambitious, incompetent artist"; "program was mercifully brief"; "sincere worker in the field of art." Mme. Walska explains that she does not take Detroit critics seriously. Her Chicago debut has been indefinitely postponed...
...speak at the Graduate Schools Society meeting in Phillips Brooks House yesterday afternoon, so that his talk has been postponed until Sunday, Mar. 4 Dr. A. McC. Crothers '99, who was to speak on that date delivered his address yesterday and took as his subject Satan among the biographers". Mme. Marie Dalliere played selected violin pieces...
...first of a series of special Sunday afternoon meetings to be held under the auspices of the Graduate Schools Society at Phillips Brooks House, President Eliot will speak on "Joy in Work" at 4.30 o'clock tomorrow. Dean Delmar Leighton '19 will preside and Mme. Marie Dalliere will play selected violin pieces...
...performed. But, as with breakfast-foods, "there's a reason!" In contrast with the rest of the program, the work seemed somewhat dry and uninteresting. True, the solo voice is well blended in the chorus, but one wondered whether the responsibility for that lay most with Brahms or with Mme. Homer, who singing without rehearsal, gave a nearly perfect performance...
...deinen blauen Augen" she had recovered all her powers and from then on she gave a flawless and impressive performance. Of simple charm was Warlock's "That Even I Saw"; Respighi's "Pioggia" rivals Strauss's "Schlechtes Wetter" in picture painting; "From the Brake the Nightingale" by Mme. Homer's husband, Sydney Homer, equals Macdowell's beauty, and dispenses with his cloying sweetness; while the same composer's "How's my boy?" is of strange power, reminiscent in general spirit of Synge's "Riders to the Sea", and of equally compelling force...