Word: bordoni
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...production disappoints. Irene Bordoni, brilliant, charming in her own, more Aphroditian sphere, as a young man, indifferent. Masculine naiveté differs from the feminine: it exacts of an actress a talent at least equal to Maude Adams'. The lines have either suffered in translation or the good people of London and Paris, in their enthusiasm for glorifying Mozart, read a great deal into them. One or the other may explain why the play succeeded on the Continent while failing to stir the North American emotions. The music by Reynaldo Hahn is undistinguished...
...Raquel Meller's $27.50 debut, a Manhattan gum- chewers' sheetlet, the Mirror, was out with the news that she was a "flop."* Speculators were described as anguished because they could not unload admissions to her expensive performances ($11 after the opening). Large pictures were displayed of Meller and Irene Bordoni side by side. Bordoni is the wife of E. Ray Goetz, Meller's importer. Was Bordoni vexed, asked the sheetlet, because her husband had presented, so sensationally, this Spanish onion...
...years ago she sang in Paris, later in London, Rome, South America. For more than three years, impresarios have been trying to lure her to the U.S. Broken contracts, excuses about fear of the sea, homesickness, personal ties intruded, and not until E. Ray Goetz, husband of Irene Bordoni, persuaded her, would she set sail? she and her three maids, eight dogs and 42 trunks in an entourage reminiscent of Sarah Bernhardt, who once heard her sing in private and told her she would some day be "as great as I think...
...Miss Patterson permitting her name and beauty secrets to be exploited thus, or whether they said: "Very pretty and sensible. She is following in the footsteps of Mrs. Nicholas Longworth and many another society woman with the best interests of Industry at heart, and of Julia Lydig Hoyt, Irene Bordoni, the Talmadge sisters and many another actress who has perceived the perfectly proper and logical sympathy that exists between cosmetic manufacturers and professional women, whose beauty is one of their assets...
...Miss Bordoni proceeded to illustrate the process of making love and reading a new version of the text at the same time. The strain was terrible, and then when we got to New York, photographers, interviewers, publicity all day long, and by evening I would go to the theatre, tired out, to be lively and vivacious. I have come to Boston for a rest; here no publicity has been necessary and I have been able to enjoy a little ease and peace...