Word: olga
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disappoint his audience no longer. His right arm in a sling, he gritted his teeth, picked up the baton with his left, conducted the Kaminski "Concerto Grossi" single-and-left-handed. The pain was too great. He had to retire. The audience extended him an ovation. His former wife, Olga Samaroff, able music critic of the New York Evening Post, wrote: "Dr. Rodzinski could not replace Stokowski...
Back from Europe came Olga Samaroff, able pianist turned kindly critic for the New York Evening Post, wrote last week for her paper a very earnest article. Said she: "I doubt if anything could be more depressing to a musician of European education than to make a journey of investigation into musical conditions overseas today...
Died. Onetime Dowager Queen Olga of Greece, 76, long embittered by tragedies of her royal family; in exile at the Villa Anastasia, Rome. She was once famous as the "most queenly queen in Europe...
...this she meant that before the World War Carol did all he could to thwart her schemes to marry him off to the Grand Duchess Olga of Russia; and that in 1918 he added insult to injury by marrying one Mlle. Zyzis Lambrino, beautiful daughter of a Roumanian officer, at Odessa. In 1919 Queen Marie secured the annulment of the morganatic Lambrino marriage, and tried to pack Carol off on a trip around the world, "to efface the memory of Zyzis." Carol thwarted her temporarily by shooting himself in the leg, and thus delayed his world tour of forgetfulness until...
...Olga Baklanova, as the far from impeccable Perichole, was in better voice than when she sang the role of the still less irreproachable Lysistrata, and managed to interpret tellingly M. Dantchenko's conception of La Perichole as a child who grows up into a woman through the stress of passion, instead of clinging to the convention which would reduce her to the level of a cheerful strolling band which happened to attract the Viceroy from Madrid...