Word: goosegirl
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...lullaby of a goosegirl...
...subject, the Czecho-Slovakian peasantry, will survive Hitler. Best sketch: A scene in the Carpathian Mountains where, protected by a chauffeur with club and revolver, the authors distributed black bread to starving peasants, some of whom had not tasted bread in seven years. Best photograph: A Slovakian goosegirl, ganders and geese against a background of rolling, lawnlike fields, mountains, summer clouds...
...night she was invited to the Imperial Palace, commanded to wear either lavender or black. She chose her own costume ?white?but the Kaiser was interested. At the Metropolitan in Manhattan, where she made her debut in 1906, she continued to have her own way. As the goosegirl in Die Konigskinder she drove the property man to distraction by her successful insistence upon having live geese on the stage. She was the only Metropolitan prima donna ever to have her own permanent dressing room. Two older singers had been bickering for one for weeks but Manager Gatti-Casazza...
...massive frame, but there he had sat and seen great Enrico Caruso enact the bearded Jew in Halevy's La Juive, the last performance Caruso ever gave. There he sat the night plump little Marcella Sembrich sang her farewell; the night Geraldine Farrar first appeared as the ragged goosegirl in Die Königskinder, surrounded by a flock of live geese which she insisted on having against all other judgment; the night golden-haired Maria Jeritza gave her first breath-taking performance of Tosca and astounded New Yorkers by singing the Vissi d' arte lying flat...
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