Word: winona
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Will Rogers, in the only daily syndicate feature carried by the New York Times, wrote: "Am here at Winona Lake, Ind. It's to the Presbyterians what the River Jordan was to those foreigners over there in the old days. These meet here to wash their sins away every Summer. Will Hays will be here as soon as he comes from Hollywood...
Back on her yacht Winona, Journalist Stillman renewed her ancient feud with photographers by threatening to hurl one bold fellow into the waters of Long Island Sound. Plates and crockery, not threats, had been her weapons last July, when she fell upon the persistent, scoop-seeking villains of the press at her son's wedding. On the Winona Fraulein Rasche, an interested spectator, lumbered to her cabin, rested...
...Winona, Minn...
...over it, embroidered it and made it into a libretto. More than a dozen years ago, it came to the attention of Composer Alberto Bimboni, who saw the possibilities in an opera with an Indian subject. He took one old Indian theme here, made an aria from it for Winona, took another there and made a chorus for the warriors. So it went, until the whole, bound neatly enough together, was presented in November, 1926, in Portland, Oregon, to the considerable credit of composer and librettist...
This week Winona will be given its second presentation, in Minneapolis. There last week plans were made to make it a major event. Mayor George E. Leach was to attend. Composer Bimboni, turned conductor, was working with his orchestra, when word arrived that the American Opera Society of Chicago, of which Edith Rockefeller McCormick is ardent honorary president, had voted him the David Bispham Memorial Medal for distinguished service in the furtherance of American music, that he would be awarded it this week at the Minneapolis performance...