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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 28, 1926 | 6/28/1926 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROUMANIA: Carol Out | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Moscow Art | 1/11/1926 | See Source »

...York Evening Post has pleasure today in announcing the engagement of Mme. Olga Samaroff as its music critic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Washington | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

...Boston-Chicago Opera Association will probably set the evening of January 26 for the event. The opera then to be given is Wagner's Walkuere. Cyrena Van Gordon, Olga Forrai, Alexander Kipnis, Augusta Lenska, Forrest Lamont and Edouard Cotreuil will be the vocal artists of the evening. Giorgio Polacco, musical director of the organization, will conduct the orchestra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WALKUERE TO BE HARVARD NIGHT OPERA PRODUCTION | 12/19/1925 | See Source »

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