Word: diva
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...repeated the performance; he applauded and I sang. But when he insisted on my singing the Czardas a fourth time-I could not get a single note out." Crowned heads of the world's musical aristocracy are not lacking. There is Caruso, whom the diva kissed; Richard Strauss and Puccini, her intimate friends; Franz Schreker, whose music she loathes ("His stories are morbid and unhealthy; his scores, vocally, are the most terrible ever written") ; Geraldine Farrar, whom she generously admires; Gatti-Casazza, Frances Alda, Marcella Sembrich her teacher, "strict, and, when I sometimes gave her occasion, stern." The choicest...
Finally a high school minstrel show which had engaged the City Auditorium made way for the diva. The concert was given without further molestation...
France Farrar is supposed to have been pro-German during the War. Of course, she did have her pre-American career in Germany. Many Americans, however, will remember the diva singing The Star Spangled Banner with great fervor at various times during the hostilities. This assuredly removes any suspicion from her of lack of love for the Allies...
...Diva's Ruby," by F. Marion Crawford...
There was a long line of people in waiting yesterday morning at the Park Theatre to buy tickets for Patti next week. Several Harvard men appeared among these devotees at the shrine of La Diva...