Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...became known that the "July List " for the Legion of Honor contained the name of Mme. Gerard distinguished poetess and authoress. For some obscure reason, which neither the Minister of Fine Arts nor Mme. will divulge, the poetess despatched a refusal of the honor in verse...
Most interesting of Summer projects is Mme. Beriza's semi-open-air theatre on the outskirts of the Bois de Boulogne, the Theatre Fiametta, which stages miniature pantomimes...
...Portrait of an Old Man, which brought $55,062; four sentimental Boucher panels for $86,184. There were also in the collection paintings by Constable, Hogarth, Raeburn, Turner, Murillo, Canaletto, Ghirlandajo, Andrea del Sarto, Veronese, Rubens, Jordaens, Teniers, Van Dyck, de Hooch, Ruysdael, Ter Borch, Van der Cappelle, Mme. Le Brun...
There lies deep in Mme. Walska McCormick's soul an impassioned desire to sing successfully in opera. To achieve this desire she has waged a prodigious battle. She has had failure after failure on the operatic stage; yet she has persisted, and has set an unusually strong and tenacious will to gain her ambition, until the question has been raised on all sides: Has Ganna Walska a voice? The critics have replied again and again: Mme. Walska has no voice. She has some pretty but very small tones in her lower voice, good enough for small parlor singing...
Married. Fraulein Charlotte Tauscher, only daughter of Mme. Johanna Gadski Tauscher, opera singer, and Hans Tauscher, to Ernst Adolphus Busch, grandnephew of the late Adolphus Busch, of St. Louis, at Berlin...