Word: ricci
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diversion: The President and Mrs. Roosevelt gave a dinner and entertainment (Miss Jessica Lee, diseuse; Master Ruggiero Ricci, violinist) for a number of Senators, rear admirals, major generals and newspaper correspondents. Mrs. Roosevelt took a number of Cabinet wives to a morning concert attended by many diplomatic corps members, at which Eide Norena. soprano, and Mrs. Roosevelt's White House guest, Flautist René Le Roy, performed. The President and his Lady held the third of their five annual State Receptions, for Congress. Notable absentees: the Vice President and Mrs. Garner, the dean of the Senate and Mrs. Borah...
Violin prodigies are much more common than piano prodigies, for small violinists can begin on small-sized instruments which fit their fingers. Louis Persinger, who taught Yehudi Menuhin and Ruggiero Ricci, has a violin pupil who created an unusual stir this week...
...only work that shows the influence of the modern school is that of Richard Ricci, whose Great Horned Owl, a bronze, may be considered a fine example of the modernistic trend in art. Cyrus Dalls, perhaps the best known of the exhibitors, has three Indian subjects on display, all in bronze. Anna Ladd, who had some of her works criticised as "Indecent" by Boston critics, has the largest exhibit. Her "Three Saintly Queens" are noteworthy, and in the opinion of Ralph Adams Cram are the best works produced in Boston for the last few years. Other of her bronzes...
When the world's largest ship, S. S. Majestic, nosed down Southampton Water last trip, she carried precious cargo. In the first cabin were Richard Bedford Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada', Novelist Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Violin Prodigy Ruggiero Ricci, Rev. Cyril Argentine Alington, Headmaster of Eton College (see p. 38). In the hold were 311 boxes of gold -$15,000,000 worth-part of Britain's $95,550,000 War debt payment...
...audience that his bad manners are traceable to the Montana mining camp. There is his wife, a check-room girl, beautiful, cheap, pampered, dumb, who is the cynosure in the boudoir scene. Then the authors proceed to fill out the play with servant side. The villainous, sleek chauffeur, Ricci, the apex of the triangle completed by Dora, and Gustave, whose continental manners embroll the kitchen in a melee with the carving set, which ruins the lobster aspic, the piece de resistance of the dinner. There is the dissipated motion picture actor, living on dreams of the past, played...