Word: patrons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chosen was not easy for Geneviève (the name she took as a nun, from the patron saint of Paris). Says the abbess: "Geneviève wanted to arrive all at once. She tried too hard." The rigorous austerities of the Benedictines, whose daily Mass begins at 5 a.m., broke her health;for 22 years she remained a novice...
What remains is the Technicolored rags-to-riches story of a great opera star who, after his triumphs all over Europe, supposedly had to put up with a cool reception at the Met and the social snobbishness of the man (Carl Benton Reid) who was both its chief patron and the father of the girl (Ann Blyth) he loved. It is a story full of the kind of quaint dialect which, designed to sound like a literal English translation of Italian, sounds only like pure Ruritanian...
...Advertised. In Hartford, Conn., a 66-year-old movie patron laughed so heartily at the comedy on the screen that she had to be hospitalized for a ruptured abdominal muscle...
...winner by number from the list of entrants in three races. He keeps half the stub, leaves the other half with the management. During the evening's program, Patrick then runs old newsreels of three unidentified races (soon to be replaced by specially shot color films). Any patron who wins the three-horse parlay exchanges his half-stub for the evening's purse (usually...
...John Christie, Bing found the incarnation of an opera producer's dream - an "art patron who pays, but does not interfere. Not that he simply bought and paid for productions. It was really the Christies who gave the whole thing its tone, and gathered together the people who could appreciate it." In Glyndebourne's six-week season, usually only one or two operas were given in the little 600-seat theater, and Ebert demanded (and Christie paid for) enough rehearsal time to insure that the operas were done to a turn...