Word: would
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play shall be introduced every five or six weeks, that those already in repertory shall be constantly repeated. The theory is that, as actors become increasingly familiar with a part, their performances improve in understanding, and that, with several parts in mind, they will not stagnate. Directrix Le Gallienne would like to install a Civic Repertory Theatre in every principal U. S. city. But at present her life is fairly full. Each morning at 9:30 she fences in the big library of her theatre with Professor Santelli, a Hungarian who tells her that she is one of the great...
...Soprano Frances Alda (real name: Fanny Adler) announced that this season would be her last at the opera house. Aged 46, no longer shapely or spry, she began a radio career by singing Madame Butterfly for a plumbing advertisement...
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...
Arturo Toscanini, conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, made known that he would sail for Italy next week to buy a castle on the Isle of Capri...
...Adams, Western Pacific President, and some 200 other witnesses and parties in the case. All these persons came before Commissioner Mahaffie either to support or to denounce the building of 200 miles of railroad tracks in Oregon and California. Location and not length makes the proposed line important. It would connect two powerful allies, the Great Northern and the Western Pacific. Vigorously fighting these two roads on the question of the new line is the Southern Pacific, backed by its ally, the Union Pacific...