Word: sylvia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Symphony Hall tonight is as follows: Overture to "Semiramide" Rossini Minuet Boccherini Three Dances from "Cephalus and Procris" Gretry Mottl Islamey, Oriental Fantasy (Orchestrated by Casella) Balakirev Introduction and Processional from "Le Con d'Or" Rimsky-Korsakov Intermezzo from "Khovantchina," Moussorgsky "La Valse," Choregraphic Poem Ravel Ballot Suite, "Sylvia" Delibes Fifth Hungarian Dance Brahms Magic Fire Music from "The Valkyrie" Wagner
...young ladies of Bryn Mawr College did honor last week to two of their number who had smashed all local records, one in scholarship, the other in athletics. Sylvia Walker of Bethlehem, Pa., "greatest athlete ever developed at Bryn Mawr," they named Queen of the May. She was already senior president; had captained the basketball and hockey teams; had played on the lacrosse team. At Frederica De Laguna, daughter of Professor and Mrs. Theodore De Laguna, respectively the head and a member of the Bryn Mawr philosophy department, they marveled when it was announced that she had scored...
Married. Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Lord Ashley, 26, son and heir of the Earl of Shaftesbury; to Sylvia Hawkes, actress, in London. They defied the Earl, who dashed to London in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent the marriage. The bride had to carry her wedding ring in her hand, as it proved to be too small for her finger...
...night club, with bootleggers, butter-and-egg men, murders, detectives, lovers, etc. Lee Tracy as the self-made "hoofer" almost makes you believe there is such a person. Eloise Stream, in a minor part, convinces you of her reality. You can't help being conscious of the fact that Sylvia Field, playing opposite Tracy, is acting...
...facts that divorce from his Catholic wife was impossible; that Valentine was his perfect complement, and knew it; and that he was off for the War. In No More Parades (1925) he endured a very special and ingenious kind of hell in a base camp, where his wife, Sylvia, and scandal about himself and Valentine, turned up to torment him and to hamper his official conduct as not even red tape and a thousand childish soldiers could have done. His maddening integrity, that alone, was the factor that saved a bad local situation and led indirectly to the establishment...