Word: divas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...late 19th-Century period piece, My Romance tells of the great love between a young Manhattan clergyman and a not very moral Italian diva, and of how, putting love before sex, she nobly renounces him. As enacted by two gauche vocalists, this desire of the cloth for the flame seems about as erotic as compiling an index...
...soap and candles. She ground the bones into flour and made cookies for her other clients. In the same way she murdered a 53-year-old widow (3,000 lire), then a 60-year-old retired soprano, Virginia Cacioppo, said to have sung Butterfly once at La Scala. The diva yielded 50,000 lire and assorted diamonds and rubies, as well as soap and candles...
...never had before - and many of them had bravoed many an earlier Jeritza performance. As much as anything else, the audience applauded the 58-year-old soprano's apparently in destructible beauty. In a silver-spangled white dress flown East by Hollywood's Adrian, the golden-haired diva looked like the late Jean Harlow in her prime. And when she sang her program of high-powered arias in the grand manner, the greatest singer-actress of her day proved that she could still be almost as easy...
Helen Traubel, Wagnerian soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, got an operatic assist from Circusman Robert Ringling, who sent her a hand-picked horse to dress up horsy Gotterdammerung. Diva Traubel got the Wagnerian score and the horse together, but the horse just looked baffled (see cut); he didn't know the score...
Died. Winfield Richard Sheehan, 61, pioneer movie maker, husband of ex-Diva Maria Jeritza; from a relapse after an abdominal operation; in Hollywood. Co-organizer of the Fox studio in 1914 and longtime picture-producer (What Price Glory? Cavalcade}, he uncovered many a star (Janet Gaynor, Shirley Temple, Spencer Tracy). He returned to cinemaking last year to produce Captain Eddie...