President Coolidge was there. So were Mrs. Coolidge, Mr. & Mrs. Frank Waterman Stearns, the British Ambassador & Lady Isabella Howard, the Italian Ambassador & Nobil Donna
Antonietta de Martino, Secretary & Mrs. Herbert Clark Hoover, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Nicholas Longworth and many another. They all went last week to the inaugural performance of the American Opera Company in Poll's Theatre, Washington.
On the stage that night something happened. Faust was given in English, by an all-American cast, and given so intelligently, with such complete concession to the beauty of the whole, that...
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