Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Invited guests include: Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Matthew J. Fox, Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Greene, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Haring, Mr. and and Mrs. Seymour Harris, Mr. and Mrs. George D. Haskell, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bunt, Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H. Pillsbury, and Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Schoonmaker...
...pageant finale there was Respighi's new La Fiamma, with massive choruses, lavish orchestration, an impassioned, queer-grained heroine who is burned at the stake for indulging in witchcraft. The heroine was Soprano Rosa Raisa, bluff in acting, uneven in voice. But Raisa, a relic of Samuel Insull's opera days, was an ace compared with the majority of the singers who have appeared in Chicago this season.* La Fiamma was by & large the City Opera Company's most creditable production. It was not enough to make subscribers forget what they had sat through before...
...white-haired flutist; and Lois Bichl, a cellist noted for her great good-nature. These three wanted to play in an orchestra but knew they stood little chance of being admitted to an established symphony organization. To start a band of their own they collected $1,000 from Samuel Insull, an equal amount from the late Julius Rosenwald, persuaded Richard Czerwonky of Bush Conservatory to be their first conductor...
...Wine (words & music by Frank Mandel, Oscar Hammerstein II & Sigmund Romberg; Laurence Schwab, producer). As Playwrights Bella & Samuel Spewack explain in their current uproarious comedy about Hollywood, most popular drama is derived from the tried & true formula: Boy Meets Girl-Boy Loses Girl-Boy Gets Girl. No one knows better than Messrs. Mandel, Hammerstein and Romberg how exasperating it is to try to find a fresh method of stating this old theme. Last time out together (East Wind, 1931), they solved the problem by having their boy meet their girl in French Indo-China. This year their situation, for musicomedy...
...stuff-suit, with a shoulder belt, according to the new style, and the bands of my vest and tunique laced with fine lace, of the color of my suit; and so, very handsome, by coach to nibble a bit at Will's. Here I did meet Sir Samuel Pepys, who greeted me merrily and did tell me some gossip from court, and all the while started at my new suit and I think with envy. Whereupon I did tell him my tailor and it did please him much. Whereupon I sought the occasion to borrow six pounds which...