Word: copenhagen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...near Trenton, N. J. Calls in the first eight months of 1928 were three times the total of Jan.-Aug., 1927. The 12½-hour service has been lengthened to 14½ hours. Now connected with the trans-Atlantic circuit are Great Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Antwerp, Brussels, Berlin, Paris, Copenhagen, Oslo, Malmo, Stockholm and eight Mexican cities. The latest extension, completed last fortnight, carries the service to Guadalajara, Mexico...
...Later she accompanied him on tours on all the continents. In Norway he became the friend of the late Edward Hagerup Grieg. He was chosen to play the Grieg Piano Concerto at the Leeds Festival (1907), and after Grieg's death he played Memorial concerts for him at Copenhagen and London. To Grieg, Percy Grainger owes his start in folk music. He has made more than 500 phonograph records; has composed more than 60 pieces for piano, voice, orchestra, chamber. But, he fondly repeats, his mother was the chief artistic influence in his life. She died...
...third week of their Quadrennial General Conference at Kansas City, the Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church passed judgment upon Anton Bast, Bishop of Copenhagen, who was accused of unministerial, imprudent conduct. He was charged with having made personal use of funds given to him for supposedly charitable purposes. For it, he had been convicted abroad and sentenced to three months in jail by a civil court...
...Copenhagen, Maria Jeritza (Baroness von Popper), famed "golden" soprano of the Metropolitan, sang in Tosca twice, Carmen once, Tannhauser once. Contrary to their polite custom of appearing at only one performance in an operatic series, the King and Queen of Denmark, dressed in their bravest regalia, sat in their box every time Jeritza sang. The King gave the singer a decoration encased in a gold medallion and asked her to attend an intimate family party at the palace after her first performance. This Mme. von Popper did with dignity and delight...
...Paris, Maria Jeritza arrived after leaving Copenhagen, looking so healthy and beautiful with her five-feet-eleven, her 160 pounds of bone and muscle, that excited friends gathered to inquire how she preserved her excellent physical condition. With a gay laugh, the large diva took the ladies of her acquaintance into her hotel bedroom and proceeded to show them. She rolled about on the floor, flinging her long legs in the air. She turned many somersaults, laughing heartily. "There," she said at last, panting and flushed, "that is what I do. That keeps me thin and agile...