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...year-old Edis, trained in the bel canto tradition, revealed a good dramatic soprano voice, whose only major flaw was an occasional dry, pingless top note. She also knew how to act, and her trim figure, revealed for the seduction of the monk Athanaël in the first act, made Paris audiences forget all the baggy Thaïses they had ever seen. Many a Frenchman (including Composer Massenet's nephew, Pierre) was reminded, in Edis' best moments, of an earlier Thaïs, Mary Garden. The comparison was appropriate: Manhattan-born Edis de Philippe had studied...
Sued. Harrison H. Boyce, 49, Manhattan inventor (motometer); by John J. Athana, his wife's sister's husband; for $1,000,000. Charge: that Boyce alienated the affections of Mrs. Jacquelin E. Athana. 22. his ward...
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