Word: op
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smart New Yorkers who crowded the opera house had no intention of sitting back and listening staidly to a Puccini per- formance. The Metropolitan was housing a ball, modeled after the balls which have occasionally been given at London's historic Covent Garden and the famed Paris Opéra. The Paris Opera House during the Second Empire was the scene into which the Metropolitan had suddenly been con- verted. Mrs. August Belmont was not in the Diamond Horseshoe where she belongs. Bewigged and betrained like the Empress Eugenie she sat enthroned on the stage beside sleek Painter Boutet...
...John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, "most successful piece ever produced on the English stage," was performed for the first time, in London. On its 205th birthday, The Beggar's Opera was performed in Manhattan last week in a French cinema version called L'Opéra de Quat' Sons, with music by German Composer Kurt Weill, Victorian settings. Last week's showing of L'Opéra de Quat' Sous was interesting for other than sentimental reasons. Famed George Wilhelm Pabst who directed it also made a German version...
...second effort to protect British agriculture got under way last week with the organization of Empire Farmers' Co-Op., Ltd., an inter-Dominion society to limit production of foodstuffs throughout the British Empire with the announced goal of raising and pegging prices 25% above present levels. Chairman of E. F. Co-Op. is that most composite Empire peer, Trevor Grant of Grant, Baron Strathspey, who was born in New Zealand, is a Baronet of Nova Scotia, lives in Scotland...
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...Syrian sheik named Monte Bourjaily left his home in the hills of Lebanon for the land of opportunity. Op|portunity knocked. After an education at Syracuse University, he became general manager of United Features Syndicate. Swart, indefatigable, he was chiefly responsible for United Features' growth in business-from $120,000 in 1927 to over a million this year...