Word: borys
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...swan-boat, twinkle-toed around his bride while the Orchestra played Wagner's Wedding March in swingtime. A chorus from New York's schools thundered the Soldiers' Chorus from Faust, climaxing it with a lunge towards the footlights and an unintentional Communist salute. Enthralled by Lucrezia Bori's excerpts from La Boheme and Baritone Tibbett's splendid singing, the huge party released itself in a loud Star-Spangled Banner, pressed backstage to admire a new $5,000 cyclorama...
Wearing his familiar navy-blue beret, offstage Fisticuffer Johnson told newshawks he thought old friends like Geraldine Farrar, Lina Cavalieri and Lucrezia Bori were as pleasing to the eye as the artistes of the current season. Of Tetrazzini, whom he considered the greatest woman singer, Mr. Johnson remarked, "They'll never replace her. She was fat and clumpy, but she needed not beauty...
...celebrated operatic star whose recent retirement occasioned farewells and tributes from noted musicians and music-lovers is (1 Richard Crooks, 2 Nino Martini, 3 Rosa Ponselle, 4 Lucrezia Bori, 5 Lily Pons...
...Lucrezia Bori...
...golfing holiday in 1933, spent their time talking musical politics and economy instead. Formally launched last April, the Guild has 115 charter members whose names, accustomed to appear in electric lights, include: Jascha Heifetz, Efrem Zimbalist, Alma Gluck, Lily Pons, Rosa Ponselle, Mischa Elman, Lucrezia Bori, George Gershwin, Grace Moore, Artur Bodanzky, Artur Rodzinski, Fritz Reiner, Paul Whiteman, Deems Taylor, Albert Spalding...