Word: opera
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...official moving pictures of the British Government, showing the work of the American Ambulance Field Service will be shown at a benefit performance in the Boston Opera House on Monday, March 12. One hundred seats have been reserved for students of the University, and tickets at one dollar each will be placed on sale at Leavitt and Peirce's tomorrow afternoon. These seats will be retained for University students until Friday, March...
This evening the wrestling team ventures into new fields. It visits the home of Grand Opera en masse, not to witness the amorous advances of Carmen and Don Jose, nor the combat of Siegfried and the Dragon, but to admire the calisthenic achievements of Professor Anderson in the manly art of catch-as-catch-can. This expedition augurs well for the whole future of wrestling. It marks a new rapprochement between the professional and the academic sides of the sport. Hereafter these descendents of the gladiators need no longer confine themselves to contests of their own confreres. The bars...
Victor Herbert's name has been synonymous with the highest achievements in the light opera field for so many years that any new work from his pen is sure of a delighted audience. In much the same way Mr. Blossom has provided such adequate vehicles for the presentation of Mr. Herbert's music that the team of Herbert and Blossom may be compared with reason to that of Gilbert and Sullivan...
...with a girl who is already engaged. He lives in the Bronx, or Kensington, or Evansville--one cannot tell; he has been to school in England or America, and to Harvard, Oxford, William and Mary, or the University of Edinburgh. His great experience occurs in a box at the opera in a city of some importance, and it must have happened some years ago, because he goes home in a carriage. One wonders if he knows where to tell the driver to stop, so unrelated is he to space and time...
...disdain, his left eye terrifying the cats on his right and his right eye appalling those on his left" is amusing. The appreciation of Mr. Jones and "Till Eulenspiegel" seems competent and sincere. What is more, it is readable. It describes the rich settings and costumes of the recent opera with a color and a freshness of epithet that hold the lay reader. The description of Zuloaga's "Portrait of a Dancing Girl" is rather less successful. Though a faithful picture, it lacks the vigor and life which Mr. Larkin has breathed into his portrayal of "Till Eulenspiegel." "Mr. Sunday...