Word: diva
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thoroughly bored with lonely success, finds him driving a taxi, turns his bad opera into good musicomedy. Agreeably sung by Lily Pons are four songs by Jerome Kern, including a waltz called I Dream Too Much, Little Jockey on the Carrousel and I've Got Love which the diva has described as a " 'ot song, very 'ot." The picture also introduces blandly comic Eric Blore (Top Haf) and an amiable seal. Good shot: Blore & seal gazing reproachfully at Miss Pons, who has stolen the seal's breakfast fish, cooked it for her husband...
...laugh, mincing along with a bird cage. In Carmen she wanders backstage selling papier-mache pumpkins. In L'Anima Allegro, she was a pipe-smoking gypsy crone (see cut). In Tannhauser few years ago she substituted for Maria Jeritza as the corpse of Elizabeth, because that strapping diva dreaded being carried down a stage mountain on a small bier. And in dozens of other operas "Maman" Maria Savage is a familiar figure to music-loving New Yorkers. She is one of the 105 hard-drilled men & women who swarm the stage singing choruses, gesticulating vivaciously...
...audience could not go quite so far as to drape over Elizabeth Bergner's slim shoulders the accumulated mantles of Terry, Duse & Bernhardt was no reflection on her very considerable talents. It does not take much of a play to provide a proper vehicle for an authentic diva. The less dramaturgy there is to distract attention from the star, many a leading lady feels, the better. But Playwright Kennedy's tale about the musical Sangers, a faintly connected sequel to her Constant Nymph, is practically no play at all. Every vital situation appears to have been almost deliberately...
...Dunster bucks and their eminently presentable companions of the gentler sex settled back to enjoy the antics of Gale Noyes and his operatic troupe. The curtain raiser was a modern opera concerned entirely with the touching theme of a house on fire: Walter Birge '35 intoned magnificently as the diva reaching new highs of operatic tonsil abuse. Donald Gleason '35 joined in most capably as Miss Birge's singing spouse and Larry Nichols '35 cut an imposing figure as the rescuing fireman. The main aria "I Smell Smoke" was enthusiastically received...
...past eight years antiFascists have remarked that the birth of the Corporative State seems to take place in Italy. with appropriate rejoicing, about as often as a diva's farewell. Was this really it at last...