Word: off-season
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...added time available for practice. Warm weather has contributed its share, and the four-car scheme will provide an additional period of practice for the University squad till a few days before the Yale game. It is felt that in former years there has been too long an "off-season", with the inevitable letdown in physical condition. This season, with winter tank-work scheduled for after Christmas, there will be only a little over a month of complete rest...
...Jeritza's contract with the Metropolitan allowed her to sing in Vienna during the off-season period. Jeritza returned from the amazing triumph of her first New York season, and during the closing weeks of opera in Vienna that Spring sang once more alongside of her old companion star, Piccaver. There was trouble now. The tenor held that the soprano, madly flushed with her New York success, had grown haughty and overbearing. She adopted the grand manner with the other singers, assumed dictatorship over the management of the company, called off rehearsals at her whim, delayed beginnings of performances, made...