Word: pedro
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which had never before been seen in America should form the programs of the Dramatic Club. That resolution has been faithfully followed by succeeding boards. With they exception of the revival. "Brown of Harvard," and the original American plays "The Moon Is a Gong," by John Dos Passos and "Pedro The King", by Miss A. Anthony Yyse, which had their premiers at the hands of the Club, all the plays presented by this organization have been written by foreign authors and have dealt with foreign themes. As a result of this policy, some plays have been produced whose only merit...
...agreed upon at the Washington Conference in 1923. The West Virginia, Colorado (the most expensive: $25,000,000) and Maryland are the three largest ships in the Navy (each 32,600 tons). Behind these in single file would come the 15 other battleships, stretching back six miles to the Pedro Miguel locks where the Florida (oldest and fastest of them all) would be chafing to get put. Then about one mile of light cruisers; then the submarines- almost a hundred of them-with their vanguard creeping midget-like through the yawning Gaillard Cut;* then another five miles of 106 pert...
...Thursday afternoon and 12 Friday evening concerts, 6 Saturday afternoon concerts for young people and 5 Saturday morning concerts for children. Under Dr. Damrosch six new works by six composers of six different countries will be played: De Falla's marionette opera, El Retablo de Maese Pedro, Sibelius' Tapiola, Casella's Scarlatina, Honegger's Phaedre, Ernst Hallfter's Spanish Suite, a symphony by Austin George Antheil, Milhaud's Ballad for Piano and Orchestra. Soloists will be Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Efrem Zimbalist, Alfred Cortot, Albert Spalding, Paul Kochanski, Rudolf Laubenthal, Dusolina Giannini, Elsa Alsen, Walter...
...Pedro Guevera, Resident Commissioner of the Philippines, appeared on the House floor to score the Bacon bill, to protest that "Moro" was only a sort of nickname for Mohammedan Filipinos; that "Moros" and Filipinos were homogeneous; of one racial stock, of like temperaments and character...
...Pedro Jurado (Argentine...