Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago firm of Fisher, Boyden, Bell, Boyd & Marshall. During the summers she has been premiere danseuse and ballet mistress at Louis Eckstein's Ravinia Opera; in the winters a solo dancer at Metropolitan Opera, Manhattan. Last year she made an eight-months' tour of the Orient. Last week in Manhattan she gave a recital with her own ensemble...
Parisians and their police were baffled last week by an offense little short of criminal but against which there is no Paris law. One evening at the opera, Tenor Franz was in the midst of a favorite aria when out upon the stage from her box climbed a young person later identified as one Sylvia Peres of Italy. Apparently overcome by an exhibitionist impulse, she threw herself into a vigorous and not inept display of fancy dance steps. Tenor Franz stood speechless. The orchestra stopped, gaping. Mlle. Peres danced on with abandon, coming to a climax with one heel...
There were important happenings last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House...
...Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news...
Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) rests in peace at Canessa Tomb, Naples, where he may be seen by visitors with special permission. Last week in Paris hard-singing Tenor Tito Schipa announced that the body would be exhumed and redressed by friends every three years so that Caruso might always appear fashionably garbed...