Word: fairyland
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Hollis Street Theatre, introduces us to Sir Herbert, permits us to hear their conversation, and, best of all, Sir Herbert's managerial commands and witticisms addressed to the actors on the stage. It is distressing to find so capable a reporter referring to the theatre as a "veritable fairyland," a phrase now in good use only in the Woman's Auxiliary Alliance of the Osterville Baptist Church...
...held at the Union last night. Nearly 175 couples crowded the big floor of the Living Room, creating a scene of kaleidescopic festivity. The decorations though simple, were so artistically arranged that the usually cold, stone corridors and be-news-papered lounging rooms seemed converted into a veritable fairyland of youth and gaiety. Laurel wreathes formed the chief decoration, being draped along the walls and caught up at the chandeliers in long festoons. The Chinese lanterns were strung about in profusion and with the regular lights softened by red crepe paper shades, the entire scene was one of great picturesqueness...
Announcement has been made that Professor Horatio Parker, Dean of the Yale Music School, and W. Brain Hooker, Yale '02, have won a $10,000 prize, offered for an American opera. It is entitled "Fairyland." The score was written by Professor Parker, and the libretto by William Brian Hooker, who collaborated with Professor Parker in the opera "Mona...
...prize was given by the Los Angeles Teacher's Association. Fifty-six operas were submitted by authors and musicians from all over the country, and they were judged by the National Federation of Musical Clubs. "Fairyland" will be produced July 1, next year, by the American Opera Association of Los Angeles. It is to be one of the productions in connection with a pageant, given by Los Angeles during the week of June 26. Professor Parker did most of the work on this opera during his sabbatical year in Europe...