Word: rosa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...firm of London restaurateurs opened a new room in one of their restaurants in which a "daring innovation" is to be made. They have secured the service of the best artists from the Carl Rosa Opera Company to give selections from their repertoire in costume in the afternoon and again after dinner and at supper in the evening. The number of performers is limited by the licensing authorities to six. There is a "producer" and the orchestra is said to be "excellent." Each week is to see a different "cycle" of operas, including Rigoletto, II Trovatore, Faust, Romeo et Juliette...
...mother came forward and with an agitated voice said: "My mother was horrified. She is of the old Russia; she cannot understand. Some neighbors thought it impertinent, wanting to seem important. This hurt my husband, and we almost gave up the idea entirely. Then I read the Life of Rosa Luxembourg, that brave woman who died for the workers, and I knew I was right." Then, with greater strength, she added fervently that it had come to her that she must dedicate her "own girl child to the same life of sacrifice as Rosa Luxembourg." She handed the baby...
Solemnity, like the pall of night, quickly fell upon the momentary levity as the Priest held the child high in his arms, saying: "I dedicate thee, Rosa, little flower of human life, to the cause of Russian women?Rosa, sweetest of flowers; Luxembourg, honored name of a martyr?beauty and sacrifice." As if in obedience to a magic wand the entire assembly rose, and with the passion of youth and the feeling of age the Internationale was sung?then...
...After the revolution of November, 1918, Rosa Luxembourg, Jewish Pole, and lifelong revolutionary agitator, became an editor of Die Rote Fahne, and through that paper she was responsible with one Karl Liebknecht for the street fighting in Berlin in January, 1919. Both were imprisoned in The Hotel Eder and in transferring them to another prison the hostile crowd shot Liebknecht, brutally attacked the diminutive Rosa and finally shot her while she was insensible from the injuries she had sustained. Her body was thrown Into a canal and only recovered months later...
...complete cast follows: Nonna Marjorie Jones Santo Philip Holmes 24 Benedetto Doris Holman Mrs. Armoroso Doris Holman Mrs. Maglione Mrs. Richard W. Hall Officer Shaughnessy W. E. Stilwell '25 Mr. Gilpatrick Edward Goodnow Rosa Doris Sanger Mr. Longo C. A. Rollins 2G. Michele Donald Keyes '25 Miss Rice Augusta Macready Tony Joseph Curtis Mr. Armoroso Harold Bates Dr. Solomon E. L. Feeney...