Word: irelander
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...cellist playing obscurely in the Metropolitan pit, Victor Herbert began his U. S. career. He had left Ireland in his youth, studied in Germany, taken a job with the Stuttgart Opera when in 1886 Walter Damrosch visited there, offered a Metropolitan contract to Therese Forster, a comely young singer who was to become Mrs. Victor Herbert. Damrosch offered Herbert $60 per week for the sake of signing up the singer he wanted. Mrs. Herbert's heyday was brief. She retired to bear children, grew plumper & plumper, never quite mastered the English language...
...want to know about "smilin' Irish eyes," Miss Helen Dawson, Ph.D, and a National Research Council Fellow, can tell you, but just now she won't talk. Dr. Dawson is now tabulating the results of her five months' research trip through seven counties of Western Ireland, in the statistical bureau of the Department of Anthropology...
...late, great Philadelphia Financier Joseph William Drexel, widow of famed Socialite Playboy Henry Symes Lehr, of whom she last year wrote a bitter, best-selling biography ("King Lehr" and the Gilded Age) ; and the Baron John Graham Hope de la Poer Beresford Decies, 70, representative peer for Ireland in Great Britain, whose first wife was the late Vivien, daughter of George Jay Gould; in Paris...
...hand as if to take an oath. Yeats himself never raises his voice above a faint chant. Absentminded, mystical, called the most complete type of fop that has ever appeared in literature, he has gone his dreamy way regardless of critical catcalls. has steadily grown in the estimation of Ireland and the world. Of the small, select number of first-rate modern poets, Yeats is certainly one. An old man now (70), he writes little new verse but indulges an oldster's privilege of reminiscence. Last week, in Dramatis Personae, he told of his part in the beginnings...
...names Yeats chiefly honors are the late Lady Gregory and John Millington Synge, whose plays did as much as his own to make Ireland proud of the Abbey Theatre and the world aware of it. But the name that crops up oftenest is that of his early collaborator, onetime friend and longtime enemy, George Moore. To Lady Gregory, Yeats owed not simply a colleague's loyalty but a more personal debt. When he was a young man of 30 and she a widow of 45 they met, and she rescued him from the slough of "a miserable love affair...