Word: passion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accomplishments. "I insisted upon singing the Mad Scene," she writes, "in which I amazed the critics, and astonished some of my warmest admirers." And again: "I am a greater artist for what that Winter brought me. Probably my experience helped me to sound the note of passion in my various interpretations, made me more the dramatic singer...
...Passion Flower" of Edna Worthley Underwood, published by Hougaton, Mifflin Company, is the second volume of a new world trilogy of which the first. "The Penitent", was published in 1922. The scene of "The Penitent" is laid in Russia of a century ago, a period soothing as today with the ferment of new ideas. "The Passion Flower," like its predecessor, is also a story of Russia. In her last volume, the story will deal in part with America...
...made a pirate on the very evening of the day he is made a small partner with his old employer. The kidnaper claims to be his father, very certainly is a villain--but he knows how to appreciate a "tall ship," as does the author whose passion for the sea runs through her former book
...Oberammergau Passion Players visited the White House and were received by the President. An address made on their behalf by the Chairman of the American reception committee carried a political appeal for assistance to Germany. Mr. Coolidge, angered, abbreviated the interview by ordering other visitors admitted. Later the President sent a letter to Anton Lang (the Christus), explaining that, much though he had enjoyed meeting the Passion Players, it is not permissable for a President to receive public addresses from people of other nations...
Although an Italian, nurtured amid brilliant stage-lights and full throated choruses in the Scala at Milan, he is still an ardent and perfect Wagnerite. Thus he pleases both the Verdi and Puccini enthusiasts, with their passion for the good old things, and the moderns, who want to get away from the bad old things. He lives solely for his job, arrives at the "House" early each day, leaves late...