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Mary Nash and Florence Nash play the diva and the wife respectively. These sisters are appearing together as stars for the first time. Both contribute exceedingly accurate and attractive portrayals...
Elizabeth Rethberg, also of the Metropolitan, had her London debut, too, in Aida. London Times: "The conspicuous thing in the diva's singing is its independence of the mere effect of climaxes. She leads one on from point to point through expansion of Verdi's melody...
...some months ago. The birth of the child was kept secret because his parents feared that it would "damage their professional careers." Said Mrs. Tellegen of her husband: "He is more than the perfect lover. He is the perfect husband, the perfect father." Said Geraldine Farrar, famed diva, onetime wife: "Just can't be bothered; forgotten...
...what they see than ravished by what they hear; who have listened, at Tosca, to an aria that spoke to them of all the rapture, the pathos of a consummate and fated love, and have seen a stubby tenor waddle forward on tiptoe to knead the arms of a diva who out-topped him by several inches; who have heard, in Bohēme, a little catch, light as a falling feather, gay as a string of beads, delivered by a Musetta under whom a property table, reinforced with iron struts, trembled, creaked, tottered. These idealists, holds Madame Leginska, should...
...Pattis" The world of singers is finding as many "new Adelina Pattis" as the world of the pianoforte has discovered "Liszt pupils." Galli-Curci and Tetrazzini are shortly to be supplanted by a whole series of wearers of the great diva's mantle. They are announced from Italy, England, Russia...