Word: diva
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After three years on the Keith circuit, the sisters returned to Manhattan. Carmela determined to study seriously. William Thorner, her teacher, happened also to hear Rosa who, nothing daunted, undertook to sing the difficult Casta diva aria from Norma. Thorner interrupted her in the middle of it to call in his friend Enrico Caruso. Caruso prophesied that in two years Rosa would be singing with him. Six months later, as Rosa Ponselle, she made her Metropolitan Opera debut. Impresario Gatti-Casazza picked the name...
...story relates the plight of a continental diva who in persuing her career has neglected to find time for those elements of romance which seem to be conducive to full artistic expression. Driven to desperation by the indifference of a paternal, middle-aged fiance, the comely vocalist throws her cap over the windmill, seeking solace in the arms of an unknown admirer, who is at first disillusioned by the young lady's forwardness, but cannot help revealing his love and the fact that he is an American impresario with a contract for the singer...
...Burschsteins of Bielostok was born last week in Chicago a grand- daughter, Daughter Rosa's first child. If this birth was one of the year's most notable,* it was because Daughter Rosa is now a world-famed diva, Rosa Raisa of the Chicago Opera Company; and because, wife of Baritone Giacomo Rimini, she had become increasingly famed in 1928, when obstetrical forecasts in the Press were limited mainly to royalty and gossipy tabloids, by being reported "expectant" (TIME, April 30, 1928). The public had watched and waited while Soprano Raisa went with her husband to their villa...
Tonight or Never is about an opera diva (Helen Gahagan) who, although a lady of affairs, is unable to become a great singer until she falls in love-specifically, when Mr. Melvyn Douglas, in very gentlemanly fashion, bites her on the neck. It is the second production this season by David Belasco, who is ailing, and he has supplied characteristic touches: real rain, real flowers, a not particularly real play. Two years ago Miss Gahagan went abroad to study music. In Tonight or Never she sings snatches of Tosca very satisfactorily...
...Virginia, legally sane; a third, Lewis Stuyvesant became Lieutenant Governor ot New York. Giant, genial Brother Bob got elected sheriff by servicing farmers cows with a prize bull. He used to hunt for robbers at night disguised as a cowboy. He was married twice (once, briefly, to famed Diva Lina Cavalieri). He had innumerable friends, knocked three town houses together to have room for his mass studio parties which have become Manhattan legend...