Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Here, however, is perhaps one reason why performances of Rosenkavalier are rare in the U. S. It is hard to find among the eccentric ranks of the sopranos any who are capable of filling, but not bursting, the trousers of the count, of being funny and at the same time handsome. There is one such at the Metropolitan, Jeritza; but she, always uncomfortable in trousers, does not like the role. Who, then, last week, was to sing Rosenkavalier, already once postponed, when Soprano Greta Stueckgold, who had been selected for the part last week, fell sick...
...descendant of this store may be seen today in Palm Beach, in Paris, in Manhattan (on Fifth Avenue). The name is now Black, Starr & Frost. Black, Starr & Frost fashioned the Davis Cup for the U. S. Lawn Tennis Association, and for U. S. and European ladies many a rare jewel, notably a $685,000 pink pearl necklace...
...doing well enough, in a quiet way; and once a year it takes pleasure in calling together its representatives from the convenient extremities of Maine and California, to take stock, likewise in a quiet way, and to celebrate another anniversary. The National Student Federation meeting is one of the rare front-page topics left of the sensational tumult that a few years ago nearly brought faculties and undergraduates to blows, and did result in an almost universal organizing of student bodies and student councils...
When the public hears about Sing Sing Prison, at Ossining, N. Y., it is usually news of an escape or a sensational execution. But escapes are rare; only three of the 18 who have escaped since 1920 are still at large. And news of executions is sensationally inaccurate...
...began to arrange the scenery, lighting and costumes for Hampden's plays and he has done them all ever since. He began on Hamlet; in Cyrano he achieved his masterpiece, as Hampden achieves his. Claude Bragdon is now 62, twice-married, a theosophist, Buddhesque of countenance, a rare person...