Word: adelina
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sued. Eugene O'Neill, playwright; by Gladys Adelina Selma ("Georges Lewys") Lewis, authoress; for $1,125,000. Her charge: that Playwright O'Neill "stole" plot and characters for his nine-act Strange Interlude from her privately-printed novel The Temple of Pallas Athenae (1924). Playwright O'Neill, in the South of France, cabled: "Never heard of book mentioned. Person must be crazy...
...whereas in Chicago, President Samuel Insull let nothing interfere. In consequence when the Chicago opera ended its home season last week, it ended also its residence in the Auditorium which 40 years ago was dedicated by President Benjamin Harrison and Vice President Levi P. Morton, with incidental music by Adelina Patti. Romeo et Juliet had been the first opera, with Patti as Juliet, and Romeo was the valedictory last week, with Edith Mason for heroine. Next season will open a proud 42-story building on Wacker Drive...
...Pattis" The world of singers is finding as many "new Adelina Pattis" as the world of the pianoforte has discovered "Liszt pupils." Galli-Curci and Tetrazzini are shortly to be supplanted by a whole series of wearers of the great diva's mantle. They are announced from Italy, England, Russia...
...Spalding is also a musician of wide experience. His early studies were under the leading violinists of New York, Florence and Bologna, and his first public appearance was in Paris with Adelina Patti. Later, as one of the soloists with the New York Symphony Orchestra he played to audiences in every part of Europe on the first European concert tour made by any American orchestra...