... time grew short it was re peated again and again, the same question. And she heard what she wanted to know. Her husband was bankrupt. She smiled and died. And half an hour after her death there was delivered to the house her last extravagance. It was absurdly ...

... enjoyed by Continental theatres, Covent Garden's demands are modest. Just after the first war, when Austria was a starving and bankrupt nation, an annual sum equivalent to £150,000 was found for Vienna's beloved Staatsoper. You must have lived in Vienna to ...