Word: diva
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Surely there is only one opera star in Chicago sufficiently distinguished to have her future family recorded, and surely her name is Mary Garden. Yet it was not Mary Garden, the aged unmarried maiden. The name that appeared was that of a less spectacular but artistically far more competent diva, Rosa Raisa. She, a lady with an equally imposing stage presence, and a far better voice, who refused this winter the leading role in the world premiere of Boito's long delayed Nerone, and who, at 34, is listed among the greatest dramatic sopranos in the world, last week...
There are, as he thinks, three of these. One, a girl, is a shy little songbird from Italy, whose mother was a reckless diva; one is an impetuous English youth; the third is Antoinette Flagg, a saucy minx from the back alleys of Manhattan. The three of them gather in Sir Basil Winterton's capacious mansion; soon it becomes apparent that they regard their father rather than themselves as the proper object of a critical inspection. Having inspected, they,decide to adopt him, and he, bewildered but delighted, decides to keep his children. But one of them, the English...
Giving its best stars for the performance, the management will have Mary Garden, noted diva of many past performances, take the part of Louise. The honest and conservative mother, who disapproves of her daughter's marriage with Julian, a poet, will be portrayed by Maria Claissens. Rene Malson will sing the part of the young lover and Vanni-Marcoux is scheduled to appear as the father...
Headliner last week at the Keith Vaudeville Palace, Manhattan, was Emma Calvé, billed "The Beloved Diva" and "The World's Greatest Carmen," serving on the same bill with such as Stan Kavanagh (Austrian juggler), Naughton & Gold (funny ones), B. A. Rolfe (Mighty Melodist of the Trumpet), Frank Evers & Greta (tightrope dancers...
...contribution to contemporary American is the fact that opera stars can, and according to the Saturday Evening Post do, wear waists made out of the red woolen plaid lining of their Father's twenty year old overcoats. At least such is the accomplishment of Miss Marion Talley, the homespun diva, who is now pouring forth extensive memoirs...