Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trappings of Communism admixed with a strange assortment of banners, sat a select committee of Soviet Grand Dames, and among them, the Priest Bukharin. There was Klara Zetkin, whose kindly face is but a mask that hides the "fierce revolutionary spirit that burns deep down in her soul"; Mme. Kollontai, attractive wife of a handsome sailor, a fervent but impractical feminist, but with an intelligence that has won her the place of Soviet Ambassador; Lenin's sister "taller than he," with angular features and the "prim air of a typical 'schoolmarm' "; Mme. Muralov, wife of War Lord Trotzky's right...
...Mme. Aneyniev came on the stage, holding her baby in her arms and accompanied by her husband, the atmosphere became charged with electrical emotion and the heart of every little Soviet flapper beat a rapid tattoo against her agitated bosom. The baby, "a little doll-like creature," nestling in her mother's arms, was dressed in white, except for a fringe of red roses sewn around her bonnet...
Eleanora Duse finished her engagement in Manhattan and departed for Boston, but not before New Yorkers had called her back for 27 curtain calls at her last performance. Morris Gest, conducting Mme. Duse's American tour, hade her a gift of flowers and a speech. Mme. Duse presented him with a polite answer and a kiss...
Thursday evening the Harvard Glee Club, generally admitted to be one of the world's greatest choruses, will sing in Symphony Hall. Mme. Onegin will be the soloist...
...Mme. Sigrid Onegin, contraito of the Metropolitan Opera Company, is the soloist on the program. She is a new-comer in the operatic world, having stepped into the limelight by her concerts in the past two years. She will sing two groups of songs. "Der Feuerriter" (The Fire Congerer) by Hugo Wolf and "Epiphanias" (Epiphany) also by Wolf are her two most interesting numbers, according to her own statement in a recent letter to the Glee Club manager. She further added that this will be the first singing of "Epiphanias" in America. I Since Christ Our Lord, from "The Seven...