Word: raisers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curtain raiser, the brand-new Santa Fe Opera Association had selected a surefire heart-throbber-Puccini's Madame Butterfly. The 32-piece orchestra launched into the opening bars as the distant view of the Jemez range faded in the dusk. Tenor William McGrath and Soprano Maria Ferriero soared expertly through Lieut. Pinkerton's and Cio-Cio-San's famous love scene climaxed by her Twilight Has Fallen, and Butterfly's lingering, final-curtain suicide touched off a round of applause that lasted through ten curtain calls. Technically, there were a few first-night bobbles. Gusts...
...Crimson will play its first hard Eastern Rugby League match of the season this afternoon when it meets the New York Club on the House Football Field at 3:45 p.m. The same clubs will field second teams for a 2:30 p.m. curtain-raiser...
...House Music and Drama Society is an exception. With its production of two operas by Gian-Carlo Menotti, this group has very definitely arrived. From every point of view--singing, acting, staging--The Medium, main feature of the evening, is a superlative theatrical experience. And The Telephone, the curtain-raiser which precedes it, makes a very pleasant comic aperitif...
...played a hard and fast game against the Engineers' second team in the curtain raiser, to earn a fair...
...things to us. It's his speech and his manner.'' Explains Kansas Wheat Farmer Jerry Risely: "I met him in a restaurant and had a chance to talk to him. I thought he had something about him-that his words carried tremendous importance." Adds Minnesota Cattle Raiser Norman Hanson: "Stevenson doesn't come down to where the farmers are. Kefauver does...