Word: perdita
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...even as David Rock carves his love-pledge on his powder horn in the first chapter, so does saintly Anne draw it forth from beneath her shawl in the last chapter, during a conversation between the two that is full of Cur-woodian epithets like "dear," "sweet," "precious," "hallowed." Perdita...
...EXQUISITE PERDITA-E. Barrington-Dodd, Mead ($2.50). Who will, may damn her, the unchaste nymph, Perdita Robinson. But there are extenuations. Her husband lavished their little on drink and mistresses. She was only 19 and three years wed unhappily. When brilliant Dick Sheridan heard her as "Juliet" and persuaded gruff David Garrick to train her, she was a desperate girl, desperate enough to keep Sheridan as a brother; virtuous enough, after London was at her feet, to show Sheridan her offers from the rakes and have him compose stinging refusals. Nor did she succumb to the Prince of Wales (George...
...Prelude to "Carmen"Bizet 2. Overture to "The Merry Wives of Windsor" Nicolai 3. To Perdita Repper 4. Finlandia, Symphonic Poem Sibelius 5. Finale of "Scheherazade" Rimsky-Korsakov 6. Jota from "Hispana" Stoessel-Jacchia 7. "By the Waters of Minnetonka" Lieurance 8. Fantasia, "Lohengrin" Wagner 9. Polovtsian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin 10. Prelude Religious Edith Lang 11. Entrance of the Boyards Halvorsen