Word: roles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More formal concerts have a role that no person shall enter the concert hall during the progress of a given piece of music. The fact that the time and place are such as to cast a general flavor of informality over the organ recitals in Appleton Chapel is no excuse for yesterday's catch-as-catch-can type of entry. There is always at least one usher at these musicals for the purpose of dispensing programs. His duties might well be extended to include the detaining of late comers without the door until the number being played at the time...
Florence Reed has never before played a Shakespearian role though she rehearsed in Hamlet with E. H. Sothern in 1907. She devoted her talents in 1917 to the long continued spectacularities of Chu Chin Chow, wherein Ali Baba and his robbers concealed themselves at the Manhattan Opera House ; hers also was the somewhat wanton Shanghai Gesture...
Four years ago it was a full-blown opera singer who came back to the U.S., got an engagement with the Boston Opera Company, later with the San Carlo. Last week came her great triumph when she made her debut in a leading role at the Metropolitan. Papa Angelo was there, wiping away proud tears, and Mayor Michael Landers of Lawrence, to give the stamp of civic authority. Twelve times the audience called her out in front of the great gold curtains, thundered its applause. Next day a typical story named her as "the latest American Cinderella to find...
Established by a shrewd village elder as insane and therefore a sacred oracle, Blettsworthy eagerly assumed the role which preserved him from the dinner-pot. It was an easy part, for everything he said sounded mad enough, concerning as it did another, and therefore impossible world. The elder, interpreting these mad oracular utterances as convenient, found his Sacred Lunatic a useful alternative for the tribal totems, miniature sloths, to whose whispered advices all unpopular policies were attributed. These wriggly, but sacred, little animals were distantly related to the race of Great Ground Sloths, evil-smelling Megatheria, who persisted though they...
Margaret Anglin, famed actress, in Philadelphia, hurt her foot. Therefore she resigned from the cast of Macbeth as produced by George C. Tyler, with scenery designed by famed Gordon Craig. Florence Reed, famed actress who has only once played a Shakespearian role, succeeded her when Macbeth opened in Washington, prior to engagements in Manhattan, Boston and elsewhere...