Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gabriele d'Annunzio disturbed the waters of Lake Garda (in the Italian lake district), annoyed ladies and gentlemen lolling in boats covered with bright awnings. He detests fat people and, what is more, he was out to add another title-speed-boat king-to his list of poet, musician, soldier, aviator, orchideous Italian. When he came ashore, it was announced that his Isotta-motored* boat had attained a speed of 127 kilometres (78.9 miles) per hour, unofficially a new world's record. The fastest previously recorded speed for motorboats, made by Gar A. Wood's Miss America...
...Drift, a play that lived a short life last season at the Cherry Lane Theatre, is up and doing. It now ambles on the stage of the Lyric in a stagnant incarnation, punctuated at grateful intervals by tolerable, vaguely familiar songs. The plot concerns one Rigo, polychromatic gypsy musician, onetime darling of society, now embittered enemy. His melodious followers ramble the forests in simple glee, vocalizing over three stumps, serenading the birds, celebrating Zita, Rigo's elfin granddaughter. She falls in love with a society man. There is mystery about Zita's male parentage which, when unriddled, restores...
...Year With Sousa (published by Crowell) by John Philip Sousa, Mr. Sousa says: "The story of the supposed origin of my name is a rattling good one, and, like all ingenious fables, permits of international variation. The German version is that my name is Sigismund Ochs, a great musician, born on the Rhine, emigrated to America, trunk marked S. 0., U. S. A., therefore the name. The English version is that I am one Sam Ogden, a great musician, Yorkshire man, emigrated to America, luggage marked S. O., U. S. A., hence the cognomen. The domestic brand of the story...
...Budapest, one Alice Posies' girl friends cried over her coffin last week. First of her set to practice a new fashion, she had abandoned stockings; had painted her legs with fantastic designs. The paint stain, like the shoe dye that poisoned Cobbler-Musician Cole of Laporte City, Iowa (TIME, April 4), polluted her blood...
...McKim, John La Farge, E. H. Blashfield, Daniel Chester French, in 1897, under the stimulus of the Chicago World's Fair. These Prix de Rome are not to be confused with the Grand Prix de Rome, an annual French Government award to only one painter, sculptor, engraver, architect or musician, instituted by Napoleon...