Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fortnight ago Mme. Luisa Tetrazzini canceled an engagement in Albert Hall, London. She could not sing, she explained, because she had taken a severe chill while vocalizing at the obsequies of the late Queen Alexandra. Last week she stood on the stage of Plymouth Hall and murmured in a rasping whisper that her cold had grown worse but that her protege, Luella Paikin, would substitute for her. Five minutes after she left the platform she broke down, summoned a physician, went...
...intermittent activities with various opera companies, including the Metropolitan. She turns to straight acting every now and then. She happens to have turned to it now in a conventional farce from France, in which there are husbands and lovers, politeness and indiscretion, wit and a song or two for Mme. Sylva. She plays a bustling relative who hurtles in and carries off the lover for herself. All mildly amusing...
Miss Janet Sabine, daughter of the late Professor Sabine of Harvard, authority on acoustics, will play opposite Mr. Etting as Lucienne Godefroid. Miss Louisa Bazeley will be cast as Mme. Charbonneau and Miss Elizabeth Lyman will play Mme. Montpepin. In the smaller parts are cast Miss Charlotte Moseley as Argile, Miss Helen Howe as Rosine Charbonneau, Miss Helen Streeter as Francoise and Miss Juliet Greene as Julie...
Opposite Etting will play Miss Janet Sabine, daughter of the late Professor Sabine of Harvard, authority on acoustics. Miss Elizabeth Lyman, who as the Barbara Fritchie of Beacon Street has amply proved here powers of acting, will assume the role of Mme. Montpepin, with Miss Louisa Bazeley as Mme. Charbonneau. In the smaller though none the less interesting parts are cast Miss Charlotte Moseley as Argile, Miss Helen Howe as Rosine Charbonneau, Miss Helen Streeter as Francoise, and Miss Juliet Greens as Julie...
Religious music, especially carols, are featured in both the program of the club and of Mme Onegin. Four folk songs, "The Galway Piper", "Qut Wacht". "The Reaper's Song", and "Turn Ye to Me", also occupy an important position on the Symphony Hall program...