Word: katinka
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...truth is, he does not dwarf the rest of the performance at all. Every act is a masterpiece of its kind. Everyone has heard of the Wooden Soldiers, and of Katinka and her inexorable polka, but in vigor of execution, in recognition of artistic requirements and in sheer merit, these two most popular scenes scarcely outdo the others. The music throughout is so far above the level of the American vaudeville that one hesitates to apply that classification to the Russian counterpart. The voices are really musical,-except, of course, when they are intentionally harsh for obvious effects...
...playing. John Galsworthy's "Loyalties" is one of the best serious dramas to appear on the American stage in years, while the Chauve-Souris players are the best vaudeville company if they can be classified as such in the world. The beetle-browed Baileff and his villainous English, Katinka and her Wooden Soldiers both already familiar to many are but two of the figures which the Chauve Souris has made famous...
...chief claim to notice before the War was his marriage to Countess Katinka Andrassy, a daughter of Count Julius Andrassy, last Foreign Minister of the Dual Monarchy. The Andrassy family is one of the principal pillars of Magyar aristocracy. During the last century a Count Andrassy was Foreign Minister at Vienna, and considered one of the greatest statesmen of his time. Countess Karolyi, granddaughter of this famous statesman, was once considered to be the most beautiful woman in Europe. The beginning and the end of Karolyi's influence in politics lies between October 31, 1918, and March...
...concert program will be as follows: 1. Mlle. Modiste Herbert 2. Melodie Friml 3. The Swan Saint-Saens 4. Katinka Friml 5. Symphony in F minor No. 4 (Finale) Tschaikowsky 6. Orientale (from Kaleidoscope) Cui 7. Huldigungsmarsch (Triumphal March) from Sigurd Jorsalfar Grieg 8.Fair Harvard
...French Folk-Song, "En Passant par la Lorraine.""La Marseillaise" (with Band accompaniment).(Miss Rogers).Andante Cantabile (Fifth Symphony), TschaikowskyValse des Fleurs (Casse-Noisette Ballet), TschaikowskyScotch Folk-Songs: "Scots who hae wi' Wallace bled." "Wha wadna fecht for Charley?" (Miss Rogers)."Katinka" Selection, FrimlMarche Lorraine, GanneThe Battle Hymn of the Republic (with Band accompaniment).(Miss Rogers...