Word: da
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...banzai tactics have set Brazilians on edge and stiffened the nation's previously tolerant temper against the Japanese. As police rounded up 27 leading terrorists in Sâo Paulo State, President Eurico Caspar Dutra last week ordered the deportation of 76 others. Said Rio's Correio da Manhâ: "We should not try to change their mentality-only their addresses." Correio's suggested new address: c/o Douglas MacArthur, Tokyo...
...years great divas have smeared their ample bodies with cocoa-colored grease paint or pancake make-up to sing Aïda, Giuseppe Verdi's Ethiopian princess. This week, an Aïda didn't have to bother. In Mexico City's Opera National the role was sung by Ellabelle Davis, a U.S. Negress...
...da was a milestone: few Negroes had ever before sung leading operatic roles with white companies. Most great U.S. companies, like the Metropolitan Opera, had never thought twice about such a possibility; "no suitable roles" had long been their stock dismissal of the notion...
...year-old Ellabelle Davis: "I want to prove that a Negro artist doesn't have to stay in his own backyard. In a singer, it is the color of the voice and not of the face which matters. If I'm a success in Aïda I will carry the fight to the doors...
...encores, the theater was filled, even to standees. The newspaper Novedades raved: "Was it an angel? A nightingale? A flute of gold?" During the next four weeks Ellabelle Davis sang five more concerts; all were sellouts. Finally the Nacional signed her for this season's Aïda. After the opera season she is booked for 21 concerts in Central and South America...