(Dec 1999)  Page(s) 524-525.  
 
Boléro... Maurice Ravel's most widely known and popular composition... became incredibly popular soon after its premiere on November 22, 1928, at the Paris Opéra... First conceived as a ballet and subsequently performed as an independent symphonic work, "Boléro" eventually found its way onto the silver screen. In 1934 Paramount released the firm Bolero, with Carole Lombard and George Raft, in which the music played a significant part. In 1979 Blake Edwards directed the fim 10, with Henry Mancini conducting "Boléro." After Bo Derek tells costar Dudley Moore that "Boléro" is the only music to make love by, the public responded with renewed interest in the music, buying 25,000 copies of it in a ten-day period...

(Dec 1999)  Page(s) 524-525.  
 
Boléro... Maurice Ravel's most widely known and popular composition... became incredibly popular soon after its premiere on November 22, 1928, at the Paris Opéra... First conceived as a ballet and subsequently performed as an independent symphonic work, "Boléro" eventually found its way onto the silver screen. In 1934 Paramount released the firm Bolero, with Carole Lombard and George Raft, in which the music played a significant part. In 1979 Blake Edwards directed the fim 10, with Henry Mancini conducting "Boléro." After Bo Derek tells costar Dudley Moore that "Boléro" is the only music to make love by, the public responded with renewed interest in the music, buying 25,000 copies of it in a ten-day period...

(Dec 1999)  Page(s) 830.  Includes photo(s).
 
Edith Cavell was executed as a spy by the Germans during World War I... British nurse, shot for spying, 1915. [Her last words were:] I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Don't think of me [as a heroine]. Think of me only as a nurse who tried to do her duty... I am glad to die for my country."

(Dec 1999)  Page(s) 522.  
 
Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on January 14, 1900.

(Dec 1999)  Page(s) 830.  
 
Edith Cavell was executed as a spy by the Germans during World War I... British nurse, shot for spying, 1915. [Her last words were:] I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone. Don't think of me [as a heroine]. Think of me only as a nurse who tried to do her duty... I am glad to die for my country."

(Dec 1999)  Page(s) 543.  
 
My Fair Lady, book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe,, based on the play Pygmalion, by George Bernard Shaw, opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on March 15, 1956, and ran for 2, 717 performances. It starred Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews.

(Dec 1999)  Page(s) 524-525.  
 
Boléro... Maurice Ravel's most widely known and popular composition... became incredibly popular soon after its premiere on November 22, 1928, at the Paris Opéra... First conceived as a ballet and subsequently performed as an independent symphonic work, "Boléro" eventually found its way onto the silver screen. In 1934 Paramount released the firm Bolero, with Carole Lombard and George Raft, in which the music played a significant part. In 1979 Blake Edwards directed the fim 10, with Henry Mancini conducting "Boléro." After Bo Derek tells costar Dudley Moore that "Boléro" is the only music to make love by, the public responded with renewed interest in the music, buying 25,000 copies of it in a ten-day period...

(Dec 1999)  Page(s) 197.  
 
Souvenir de Mme. Hennecourt ('Souvenir de Mme. Hennecart') Hybrid Perpetual. S. Cochet 1869... glossy pink fading to icy pink...

(Dec 1999)  Page(s) 521-522.  
 
Tarzan of the Apes, also called Tarzan the Terrible and Son of God, was born in a cottage made of packing crates and mud on the shores of Africa on November 22, 1888. His real name was John Clayton, and he was the son of Lord Greystoke and his delicate wife, Alice, who, not long before John's birth, were marooned on those wild shores by savage mutineers... His mother died a year after his birth... It wasn't long after that that Kerchak, king of the apes, and his troop went on a rampage, entered the cabin... and killed the grief-stricken husband and father. Had it not been for Kala, mate of Tublat, who was mourning the loss of a baby, little John Clayton might have been killed too. However, Kala grabbed him to her bosom and adopted him as her own... In 1908 Tarzan met Jane Porter, who by sheer coincidence was marooned on that same shore. She was nineteen, with long yellow hair and blue-gray eyes... [there's a lot more information about Tarzan's life, see Source.]

(Dec 1999)  Page(s) 522.  
 
Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome on January 14, 1900.