Word: diva
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...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...
...wanted to find out was whether or not Chicago's "Our Mary" had ever written an opera. It being his very first assignment he did not know whether "Our Mary's" alleged cold was an operatic brand of applesauce or not. He had heard that no diva ever avoided publicity and as for "Our Mary" being in bed-well, he guessed lots of people had received in their bedrooms before this, in health and in sickness, for better or for worse. Still, he had been as persistent as even a cub reporter should be, probably. The hotel manager...
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...green suit, two strands of pearls, many bangles and a slave anklet, 118 sinuous pounds of Mary Garden, Chicago diva, returned last week to the U. S. Newsgatherers ignored her wrinkles, flattered her appearance and she said goodness, yes, that was what came of going without dinners, especially gorgeous ones ("Lord, how I love good food!"); of not smoking or drinking; and of swimming daily in the Mediterranean, with no bathing suit and no company save two police dogs. She told her famed escape-from-a-shark story (TIME, Sept. 13), patted her bobbed hair and apropos of Maria Jeritza...
Married. Luisa Tetrazzini, 52, diva; to one Pietro Vernatti, 32, her onetime tenant; in the Town Hall of Florence, Italy...