Word: popper
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...postured and sang, while a lovelorn monk pursued her. What should a monk have to do with so great, so good a lady? Ah, he was trying to save her soul from hellfire, for in the play she was not good at all. She was Maria Jeritza (Baroness Von Popper) pretending to be Thais (famed harlot) at the season's first performance of the opera of that name. Now it is not difficult for a courtesan to pretend to be a great lady. The best courtesans are said to give a certain number of hours each...
...that, in the winning, he found his love for Christ was really love for Thais. He died in torment of the flesh, while she, dying also, dreamed only of the mercy of the pale Christ, her last lover. He knew all the time that she was the Baroness Von Popper and in no more danger of hell fire than the people in the boxes, who knew this also, for she let them. But splendidly the poor monk sang, splendidly the lady and, though the music of Massenet's opus seems more and more gouty with every year, the people...
...Jeritza" (Baron Leopold Popper) : " In Vienna my wife, Maria, Metropolitan Opera star, underwent successfully an operation for appendicitis...
Maestost Andante, from "Samson and Dalila," Saint-Saens Intermezzo, Mendelssohn Romance in G. major, Beethoven Mr. Frederick L. Mahn. Solvegs Song Grieg Andante, Molique Mr. Pasquale Amerena. Devotion, Popper Mr. Carl Stock-bridge. Lohengrins Farewell, Wagner Woodland Whispers, Czibulka Reverie, Ganne
...Charles Wakefield Cadman b The Bird, Dwight-Fiske c The Angels are Stooping, Rudolph Ganz d Vigorous and honest is he, Swedish Folksong e Song of the Open, Frank La Farge Mme. Sundelius. 5. a Air, Jean Hure b Papillons, Gabriel Faure c Serenade Napolitaine, Sgambati d Mazurka, David Popper e Tarantella, David Popper Mr. Casals. 6. Aria from "Louise," Carpentier Mme. Sundelius...