Word: riche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britons, Covent Garden shimmers with memories of empire and artistry in opera's most florid era, when Victoria's passion for singers helped make London the goal of every topflight musician. Its history goes back even farther, to two Covent Gardens before it. In 1732 Actor John Rich, who had rented the site, a convent-garden, built a prose theater (its star playwrights: Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Sheridan). After a devastating fire, the theater was rebuilt in 1809, later named the Royal Italian Opera House. It featured not only opera but all-night masked balls whose patrons, wrote...
...temperamental, set by such prima donnas as Giulia Grisi, Nellie Melba, Emma Albani. In the '90s, Adelina Patti, who imperiously ignored rehearsals, once filled the stage with detectives disguised as supers to guard her diamonds. Famed Manager Augustus Harris made Covent Garden London's choicest nightspot for rich and royal patrons who came to monocle each other-and protested violently when he doused the house lights during performances...
Some became increasingly college directed; they were little more than informal prep schools. Others specialized in problem children, usually of rich parents. But neither of these functions has the urgency of which the schools had been born, though they were still important...
Hour after hour Joseph lay on his bed, listening to jazz records on his rusty phonograph and sweating his youth away in voluptuous fantasies of the city, where he would "be myself, be free, be cruel and be rich." But whenever he threatened to break out of the web, his mother would bind him tight again with a pernicious tissue of threats. "The day you leave here," she would sob self-pityingly, "I'm going to die!" As for Suzanne, she cleaned up the worms that fell from the diseased roof into the beds, into the food...
...stupid young man (Nehemiah Persoff) from the city, but he was rich. He offered Suzanne a new phonograph if she would let him watch her take a shower, and a diamond if she would spend a weekend with him in the city. "I guarantee I won't touch you," he assured her, gasping with excitement. Suzanne contemptuously accepted his diamond but declined payment, and Joseph stirred worms into his coffee. But Ma led the suitor on, in hopes he would lend her money. When he didn't, Joseph ran him off the place with a shotgun, and then...