Word: patronnesses
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...every nationality-Clara Schumann, wife of the great German composer, Robert Schumann; Mrs. Chazal, English composer, pianist; Carlotta Ferrari, foremost woman composer of Italy; Teresa Carreiia, Venezuela. Ethel Leginska has frequently been given public attention when she conducted orchestras (TIME, Jan. 19). A woman, Saint Cecelia, is the patron saint of Music. At all these notable women, male musicians have sniffed now and again. Other women, or sympathetic males, resenting the sniffs, have taken up arms, started anew the age-old controversy: "Should women confine their fiddling to the home? Is Love's Old Sweet Song the most ambitious...
...just published some colored plates of the rarer Psittacidae (parrots). The 13th Earl of Derby went up to London thereupon and lured Lear to go down to Knowsley to draw Derby's private menagerie. While there, he wrote some poems for the delectation of his patron's young grandson, the 15th Earl (to be). These included the first limericks of record and were published a few years later as the Book of Nonsense...
...side of the shining tonneau was tastefully draped in ar large British Union Jack, the other in a large U. S. flag. In it sat three high hats-Sir Harry Gloster Armstrong, British Consul; Walter L. Clark, President of the Grand Central Art Galleries; Irving T. Bush, Art patron. They were waiting for Sir Esmé Howard, British Ambassador to the U. S., to arrive from Washington. On the other side of Manhattan Island, 4,000 people-said to be the largest assemblage ever to attend a New York exhibition-waited for him also. For this Ambassador had promised...
...sword and muleta (a brilliant scarlet cloth hung from a short stick) and addresses himself to the president of the fight. He asks permission to commit tauricide and, that received, next dedicates the animal to a portion of the arena, or to a lady, or to a wealthy patron, by tossing his hat into the stand. When the hat comes back, its owner is confident of finding therein some costly gift...
...whether or not Boston lives up to its far-flung reputation as a patron of the arts?" said Walter Hampden, producer and star of "Cyrano de Bergerac", which is now playing at the Opera House, to a CRIMSON reporter Saturday. "Well, sir, Boston wins no prizes as a drama-loving city...