Word: divas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fastidious Caruso, who bathed twice daily and sprayed himself and his surroundings with verbena scent, said of a not-so-fastidious diva: "Ai me! It is terrible to sing with one who does not bathe, but to be emotionated over one who breathes garlic is impossible. I hope the public observe not my lack of feeling...
Frances Alda, plump, redhaired, old-time Metropolitan Opera diva who retired in 1929, was charged in Manhattan's Yorkville Court with swiping 300 red ration points from her ex-cook, Mrs. Barbara Neill. Cook Neill, who worked only one month for Mme. Alda, claimed that she had handed over her ration books to her employer when she started, got back the books minus 300 points (a normal six-months' supply) when she was dismissed. Mme. Alda's attorney called the charges "fantastic," declared: "Even if Mme. Alda could settle this case for $50, she would spend thousands...
...revival of the week was the old story about the diva who was ill and the understudy who stepped in at the last minute and scored a hit. It happened at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House: the diva was bosomy Yugoslav Soprano Zinka Milanov; the understudy, a wispy, 22-year-old New Yorker named Regina Resnik...
...jail-fodder kids of the street so astutely that before long they are singing Mozart's Ave Verum and liking it. He even teaches old Father Fitzgibbon how to play golf. He also writes songs which, with the help of an old friend who sings in opera (Metropolitan Diva Risé Stevens), he sells so effectively that the parish, despite a disastrous fire, rises clear of all financial problems. And just before he leaves St. Dominic's to trouble-shoot for another decrepit priest, he brings Father Fitzgibbon's mother across on a surprise trip from Ireland...
Last week Grace Moore summed up her three-ring career as diva, musical comedy star and cinemactress in an engagingly frank, somewhat bumptious autobiography (You're Only Human Once; Doubleday, Doran...