Word: spectacularisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Metropolitan open golf championship, Eastern equivalent of the Southern and Western opens, fell to Bob MacDonald, of Chicago. Though virtually all the professionals that gathered for the National championship the week previous at Inwood drove off for a try at the Metropolitan title, little spectacular golf was played. By missing a one-yard putt on the home green MacDonald ran into a tie with Jim Barnes of Pelham, at 295. In the play-off Mac-Donald shot 70, three under par, and defeated Barnes by ten strokes. MacDonald won the same title in 1921, and lost it in a similar...
Joseph Capek, co-author of The World We Live In, presented a novel drama, The Lana of Many Names, in Prague. The play is " a lively, spectacular review, but filled at the same time with long ethical monologues and lyrical addresses on the subjects of pacifism, imperialism and war." One long act satirizes Wall Street and the modern Stock Exchange...
...voice, good enough for small parlor singing, but her upper register is so weak and thin that when she essays the big and loud singing parts of opera she emits a shrill squeak. Nevertheless, the lady, with her enormously wealthy husband supporting her, has entered upon a new and spectacular campaign to achieve success in opera. Last season she put on several concerts in Mid-Western America. These were all failures and received universal dispraise. Mme. Walska, despairing of America, took herself to France, where the critics might perhaps be less disposed against her. A few weeks...
...Westminster Abbey-a striking scene wherein great chandeliers are decorated with ladies of the chorus pinch-hitting for the usual crystal ornaments-a section of the French Revolution-a flash of dear old Fujiyama -and others-dozens of others-too many to count or describe. In fact about everything spectacular that can be done with costumes, lavish scenic effects and a well trained chorus is done, except the Last Judgment. Presumably that is reserved for the Passing Show...
Pizetti is the philosopher of the new school of Italian composers. Italian musicians are becoming serious and profound. A new spirit has come over them. This is well illustrated by a spectacular disturbance which marked the opening of the Scala season two years...