Word: divas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Recitative and Aria of Lia," from L'Enfant Prodigitc, that Mr. Stock's hitherto intact baton went sailing in three pieces from his passionate grasp into the ranks of the scraping violinists, one fragment just barely missing a plunge down the low back of the diva's gown. Mr. Stock, unaccountably prepared for the emergency, picked up another stick from his desk and went on restrainedly as ever...
...rogue who gallops about on a white charger, he kidnaps a composer (Conway Tearle), later an orphan named Hilda Bouverie (Irene Dunne) who falls in love with him. The bandit arranges for the composer to hear the girl sing, goes to jail while she prepares to become a great diva. Stately Miss Dunne succeeds as convincingly as do most cinematic songsters, but inevitably she is drawn back to Australia...
...before the play begins: Elsa (Violet Kemble Cooper), hot-blooded Austrian noblewoman, marries a prince, has a daughter (Carol Stone) by a peasant (Tom Powers), exhausts the prince's fortune in pursuit of a singing career, deserts prince & peasant to marry a Manhattan broker, fails dismally as a diva. What happens during the play: Grown to adolescence, the daughter displays a voice inherited not from her noble mother but from her peasant father who reappears as a wheat tycoon to oppose Elsa's jealous opposition to the girl's studying abroad. So fixed that he can "wipe...
Sierra; Arthur J. Beckhard, producer). A volcanic opera diva returns to Andalusia from Madrid at the request of her abandoned husband, who wants to tone up their daughter's wedding by the appearance of both the bride's parents. The diva arrives with a lot of theatrical riffraff, the daughter cools to her fiance, but the parents are happily reunited as the curtain falls. The diva is impersonated by Blanche Yurka, a seasoned actress who has of late years specialized in Ibsen. Greek tragedy and was one of the Narrators in Lucrece. The playwright is the author...
...wren-like wardrobe mistress; bug-eyed Billy Slade, impersonated by Ben Lackland. As usual, Mr. Lackland is playing the part of a rich young man with a Lot to Explain. All the giggling girls, comics and doormen have been interviewed when Inspector Ellery comes at last to the temperamental diva, Sonya Sonya. The diva turns out to be Olga Baclanova, a fullblown Muscovite who in recent years has adorned the films. During one of the lulls in the investigation she appears, in a white satin gown which shimmers and hints, to sing with a somewhat uncertain falsetto a song called...