Word: toed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ladies who sing Elsa in Wagner's Lohengrin are heavy, Teutonic, have small flare for acting. That a knight should trouble to rescue them is often unbelievable. But at the new Chicago Civic Opera House last week an audience was pleasurably surprised. The Elsa .who came pathetically before the...
Those who knew anything of the career of Soprano Hallie Stiles were astonished when it was announced that her first formal U. S. appearance would be in the Germanic Lohengrin. Artistically she is a Paris product. Born in Stockton, Calif., she went, aged ten, to Syracuse, N. Y., where her...
Nearly four years have passed since then. Hallie Stiles' performances of Manon, Marguerite, Melisande, Butterfly, Louise, have been fads at the Opera Comique. The French like her because she has made their graces her own. Many a U. S. visitor has proudly claimed her to be the most satisfying...
In 1772 when Franz Joseph Haydn's Farewell symphony had its first performance before Hungarian Prince Nicholas Esterhazy, some one had the idea of keeping the audience in darkness, giving each musician a candle of his own to snuff at the concert's close. In Cincinnati Conductor Fritz...
When a newspaper prints an objectionable personal reference, you can shoot the editor, but usually your only legal redress is to sue for libel. Not so in Minnesota. There they have a "Newspaper Suppression Act," called by libertarians a "Gag Law." Last week State Chief Justice S. B. Wilson ruled...