Word: seasons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Houghton proceeded to German-populated St. Louis and there painted a most moving picture of the Hoover services in feeding post-War Germany. The picture included "little girls . . . white, emaciated, unsmiling . . . with great awful eyes," and "a woman dressed in black" in Berlin at "that dreadful Christmas season of 1922 . . . the tears streaming down her face, carrying in her hand a little piece of hemlock." At the outset it appeared that Mr. Houghton had been sent to St. Louis to counteract a political canard that Mr. Hoover had been unkind to Germans. But at the end he said, "This...
...account of stock revealed few changes. The same proportion of the audience mercilessly missed the first act. There was the same tardy cluttering down the aisles, whiffs of expensive perfumes, the swish of wraps, the shooting of cuffs and hats. No Golden Horseshoe boxes had been sold since last season but there had been private rearrangements. Clarence H. Mackay was missing. So was Clarence Dillon. Fashion-writers noted that gowns dip in the back this year, fit snugly over the hips. One rhapsodized over a Lanvin taffeta, another over a Lelong tulle. Such pomp and circumstance meant little...
...some years an Italian opera starring Rosa Raisa or Claudia Muzio has opened the Chicago season. This year Rosa Raisa is expecting a baby (TIME, April 30). Her doctor forbids the ocean trip and she will spend the winter quietly in Italy. Claudia Muzio is in Buenos Aires. Her mother is sick. She cannot leave. Thus, its Italian wing considerably weakened, Chicago breaks precedent this year and takes a French start with Carmen...
Hitherto Carmen in Chicago has meant Mary Garden but it is a Garden whim never to open the season. Instead, as bait. Manager Herbert M. Johnson dangled the announcement of the U. S. debut of Contralto Maria Olszewska...
Practically every great city has its orchestra. For years Paris has been the notable exception. Now the formation of a Paris orchestra is announced. Two million francs have been subscribed, 80 musicians engaged. Louis Fourestier, Ernest Ansermet and Alfred Cortot will conduct the first season's concerts, to be devoted impartially to modern and classical music...