Word: orpheus
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...large snapping turtle named Orpheus made itself at home last week in Chicago's expensive Blackstone Hotel. It was the honored guest of Mrs. Ben Rubenstein, wife of a British timber merchant. As Conchita Supervia, Mrs. Rubenstein was in Chicago to sing Carmen with the Civic Opera Company. The turtle was her talisman.* Never before had she found one sturdy enough to weather touring. She had always depended on a little silver turtle, the insignia of the Orden de la Tortuga of which ex-King Alfonso of Spain and the late Dictator Primo de Rivera were charter members. The grandfather...
...Supervia's Orpheus is probably the bulkiest, most troublesome talisman on record. But nearly all musicians are superstitious, carry some sort of charm. Arturo Toscanini keeps sewed in his dress clothes' pocket a picture of his three children taken when they were little and a visiting card on which Composer Giueseppe Verdi sent him New Year's greetings shortly before he died. Caruso used to have every costume made with two little pockets on either side. In them he kept vials of salt water and if he felt thirsty he turned his back on the audience, took a drink. Soprano...
...Byron" by Vachel Lindsay. W. H. Melish '31, who rendered "A Peace Worth Preserving" by Wilson, and J. L. Ware '30, who recitated "The Passing of Arthur" by Tennyson won the two other prizes. The 1929 competition was won with declamations of selections from older authors, such as "Orpheus and Eurydice" from Virgil's Fourth Georgic, in Latin, and a selection from "Gyrano de Bergerac." The names of those who will judge the speakers have not been announced...
Overture, "Dedication of the House DeKoven Aria from "Orpheus" Gluck Symphony in B Flat Haydn Rosamunde Ballet Music Schubert Recitative and Aria from "Odysseus" Bruck Prelude to "Die Meistersinger" Wagner...
...program will be composed of exactly the same numbers as that first one fifty years ago. It will be opened fittingly by Reginald DeKoven's Overture, "Dedication of the House." Madame Matzenauer, who replaces the soloist of the first concert, will have two arias, one from Gluck's "Orpheus," the other from Bruck's "Odysseus." Many of the audience will recall her singing in the Brahms Festival of this past spring...