Word: seasons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sentimentalists over sports were disturbed to learn last week that the Army-Navy football game for 1928 is, after all, completely canceled. Navy announced curtly its football season would wind up Nov. 24 against Princeton. Again sentimentalists started. For the first time in the history of the oldest rivalry in football (51 years) Princeton will meet a college other than Yale in her curtain game. After playing Yale Nov. 17, Princeton will journey to Philadelphia against Navy. Students of the situation noted that the Princeton-Navy agreement carried a clause for two more years, the games to be played...
...Metropolitan Opera salary). Miss Talley resented this "gross breach of confidence," said: "In order to get rid of him [Coppicus], because I was dissatisfied with the work he was doing for me, I told him I was not singing next year. . . . Without doubt I will sing in concerts next season. In fact, I have already signed a contract with my new manager, George Engles, which will take effect as soon as my contract with Mr. Coppicus comes to an end in April...
...story about a courtesan written by Alphonse Daudet, for his sons "when they are twenty," supplied Jules Massenet with a frail clothes line upon which to peg his watery songs. Chiefly because Mary Garden ("Our Mary") must every season have a new role, this Sapho was presented last week in Boston, first stop on the Chicago Civic Opera Company's annual midwinter tour...
Seventeen operas in two weeks made up the Boston run. Then the Chicago Civic Opera Company packed up its costumes and picked up its skirts for a pilgrimage through the south to the Pacific. Reviewing the home season, Chicago operaddicts agreed that it had been in no way notable for novelties and revivals. Monna Vanna, Sapho, Linda Di Chamounix, doubtful additions to the repertoire, had apparently displaced proved productions of Der Rosenkavalier, Don Giovanni, Pelleas. The new ballet had cavorted around in better style than the old one; but there had been an orchestral slump, in part produced...
Strange Interlude. Culture climbers, scattered seafaring men, drama devotees, Germans, George Jean Nathan, common people eyed narrowly the first performance of the season's prodigy. Eugene Gladstone O'Neill's nine-acter was solemnized by the Theatre Guild. The play began at 5:15, ran until 7:30, took recess for hungry actor and audience, resumed at 9, discharged...