Word: bori
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assume more burden. In fighting disbandment, Cornelius Bliss stressed the number of people who would be thrown out of work-about 770. He consented to serve on a committee to impress outsiders with the need for help. Characteristically he took no credit for his efforts; small, popular Soprano Lucrezia Bori was made chairman...
Birthdays. Frank Billings Kellogg, 76; Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), 70; Rudyard Kipling, 67; Harvey Samuel Firestone. 64; Edwin Arlington Robinson, 63; Lucrezia Bori, 43; England's Prince George, 30; Princess Maria of Italy...
...Father Francis P. Duffy, "fighting chaplain of the 69th," convalescing from a recurrence of War-gassing; Vincenzo Bori from an automobile accident in Monte Carlo where he awaits his sister Lucrezia Bori, Metropolitan soprano; Edward Beale McLean, publisher of the Washington Post, of gastrointestinal afflictions, in Paris; Captain Robert Dollar, critically...
...apple and changes his collar. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett wears a comical silver rabbit when he sings, Tenor Gigli a little gold bell his daughter once pinned on his pajamas. Violinist Jascha Heifetz hates to admit that he is superstitious about his ring with the Ceylon ruby but Soprano Lucrezia Bori is not one bit ashamed of the little gold key she wears pinned to her garter. She calls it her "key to happiness...
...successfully, roles like Norma, the priestess in La Vestale, Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, operas which might never have been revived if there had not been a voice with the range and flexibility of Ponselle's. She has still much to learn. She will never have the grace of Bori, the subtlety of Garden, the force of Jeritza. She has heavy Italian features, difficult to disguise. But her voice, critics almost without exception say, is the greatest to be heard today. It has brought her glamorous reward. Her concert earnings average $3,000 an appearance, her broadcasts $5,000 apiece...