Word: nobleman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ochs, the clumsy gallant of Der Rosenkavalier, Strauss thought was consistently misunderstood and misplayed. Instead of "a vulgar monster with a horrible make-up and proletarian manners," as most bassos represented him, Strauss intended him as "a rustic beau, a Don Juan of some 35 years, but nevertheless a nobleman . . . Inwardly he is gross (ein Schmutzian), but outwardly he remains quite presentable . . . Above all, his first scene in the bedroom must be played with extreme delicacy and discretion, it must not be repulsive ... In short, Viennese comedy, not Berlin farce...
Glittering Cibola. Coronado, the second son of a Spanish nobleman, had no money of his own. The law of primogeniture had sent him packing to the New World in search of his fortune. Five years before, in 1535, he had arrived in Mexico City at the side of the viceroy; an "attractive and popular" man, he had been made governor of Nueva Galicia, the province just northwest of the capital...
...plot brings a nobleman, who thinks he is broke, into service as a footman in the household of connoisseur Joshua Howard. Inevitably he falls in love with the old man's niece and amanuensis, and gets into numerous complications before the final dribbling denouement...
...married to Miss Jane Porter of Baltimore, Md. by the latter's father, Professor Archimedes Q. Porter. The ceremony took place in the little cabin on the African coast where Tarzan was born, and through it Jane became Lady Greystoke of England, since Tarzan was a nobleman by birth...
...purple alike. In London and Manchester, crowds have queued up all night for his performances. He has held court for the royal family and Winston Churchill. "His dressing room," wrote the highbrow Sunday Observer, ". . . is now as crowded and as diversified as the anteroom of an 18th Century nobleman in the days of patronage...