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...whirling to the strains of a sweating, shirtsleeved orchestra, sang and danced passionately around a plaster head on a property platter until her feet hurt and print dress was damp and dusty. She was Erica Darbo, the Scandinavian soprano whose U. S. debut set Cincinnati agog last February in Strauss' Salome, rehearsing for her first New York appearance. The night of the performance, in costume and against a background of stars and sultry violet, Miss Darbo gained full credit for the force and fury of her acting, but New Yorkers were not impressed with her wiry, imperfect voice, scarcely...
...business in 1921, when Jack Dempsey and Georges Carpentier fought each other in Jersey City for a gate of $1,789,000. Unpublicized co-promoter of that fight, with the late famed Tex Rickard. was a shrewd young ticket speculator from Manhattan's lower East Side named Michael Strauss Jacobs. After the Dempsey v. Carpentier fight, Jacobs helped Rickard build and run the new Madison Square Garden. Promoter Rickard died in 1929. In 1934, Ticket Speculator Jacobs became a prizefight promoter on his own account...
...budget. Adolph Lewisohn, 88, who donated the $225,000 stadium, promised other conductors like Fritz Reiner, Willem Van Hoogstraten, Alexander Smallens, George King Raudenbush. The first week of the eight-week season was to feature Lily Pons singing three arias and Soprano Erica Darbo in an elaborate production of Strauss's Salome. Ambitiously the later repertoire included a telescoped Ring, a possible Lady Macbeth of Mzensk, ballets by Mikhail Mordkin's troupe and by the Littlefield troupe, now performing in Europe (TIME...
Kirkland House won Strauss Trophy with better managing and keener spirit than other Houses. Allen leads juniors in Student Council poll; Harding wins Sophomore election...
...Pomp and Circumstance," MarchElgar *"In the Spring," Overture Goldmark *Liebestraum Liszt-Herbert *"By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Strauss *Hungarian Dances, No. 5 and No. 6 Brahms *Overture to "William Tell" Rossini Framingham State Teachers College Glee Club (with orchestra) *"Maytime," Selection Romberg *Mosquito Dance White *Torch Dance from "Henry VIII" German *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...