Word: bori
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley of Baltimore, last week celebrating mass at his native Athlone, Ireland, had a greater pair of soloists than ever graced his Baltimore service. Tenor John McCormack (also born at Athlone) and Soprano Lucrezia Bori (born at Valenzia, Spain, but summering with the McCormacks) sang for the archbishop...
...Lucrezia Bori Grace Moore
...same day, Singer Bori, Diplomat de Ligne, Architect Gilbert, Bishop Manning, Arthur Churchill, Actress Collier, Aviator Lambert, Preacher Fosdick, Actress Mitzi, Constable* Protheroe-Smith. Critic Nathan sailed, variously, by the Roma, Majestic, Paris, Carmania, Lapland, Minnesota; and Oilman Pratt, Publisher Doran, Brewer Doelger arrived on the Berengaria...
Flowers were in the arms of Lucrezia Bori and everywhere on the front of the stage. Applause was thundering. Miss Bori was bowing. The audience was standing up. Miss Bori tossed one of her bouquets to a woman standing in the second row of the orchestra. The woman caught it gracefully. She, too, bowed. The applause was getting louder and louder. Much of it was meant for the woman in the second row. Her name, as everyone knew, was Geraldine Farrar, 46, onetime darling of the diamond horseshoe...
Thus, the noisiest, longest and perhaps the most sincere demonstration of the Metropolitan Opera Company's season in Manhattan. It happened last week after the second act of La Rondine, in which Miss Bori sang with triumphant charm. It was also the last week of the season; but before Miss Bori packed her trunks, she did something that would have pleased the late Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. It was not easy, for Mozart operas have become so unfashionable that the Metropolitan dismisses him with one performance a season. But Miss Bori was allowed to sing Despina...