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...question is how to get Prima Donna Elsa Terry (Grace Moore) from Manhattan to the Argentine, to fulfill an engagement in Buenos Aires. Her faded diva aunt (Helen Westley) insists that she go to Paris instead. Up from the pampas come Emissary James Guthrie (Melvyn Douglas) and his stooge, "Pancho" Brown (Stuart Erwin), who lay siege to Elsa with flowers, gifts, attentions. When Elsa discovers what seems to be a ring of cold business in Guthrie's honeydew phrases. the plot bears to the left, but the clairvoyant audience knows it will come right again...
Still treating rumors of her marriage to air-minded Conductor Andre Kostelanetz as a big joke. Diva Lily Poas avowed: "In five years I quit the stage. I quit my music so I can plant my garden, so I can milk...
...memoirs of operatic divas go, one in which the author admits she is plump, is not too boastful about herself or too jealous of her peers, is on its face noteworthy. Such a volume (ghosted by Dorothy Giles) is Men, Women and Tenors* by Frances Alda. Long a capable Metropolitan Opera Soprano, first wife of Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Mme Alda launches her book with much of the triumphant, glassy-smiling air of a diva squaring off at a high C. Says her introduction: "For 50 years (everyone from the radio announcer to the Motor License Bureau knows...
Confession (Warner Bros.). A onetime gay Polish opera diva, Vera (Kay Francis) is so bereft when her husband Leonide. a nice fattish army officer (Ian Hunter), goes away to the War that she drinks too much at a wild Warsaw party given by her old trouper friends, passes out in the arms of Michael Michailow (Basil Rathbone), a melancholy musician perennially bent on seduction. When Leonide finds Vera in Michailow's apartment he jumps heavily at the worst conclusion, promptly divorces her and takes her baby daughter. Years later Daughter Lisa (Jane Bryan), fatherless now and unaware that Vera...
Divorced. Mary McCormic, 38, Chicago Opera star in the heyday of Samuel Insull; from her third husband, Homer V. Johannsen, 36, Chicago attorney; in Chicago. Charge: cruelty. Diva McCormic's second husband was the late Serge Mdivani...