Word: divas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whom Melba toast and the peach Melba were named. It is a rich, creamy, Technicolored movie biography that consists of a series of arias, as Mme. Melba moves from one operatic triumph to another. The songs are imbedded in a fictionalized, soggily romantic yarn about the men in the diva's life: her Australian husband (John McCallum), who walked out on her (in real life, Melba left him and their child to take up an operatic career in Paris); a rich London playboy (John Justin), who helped her get started on her career; and an amorous hotelkeeper (Alec Clunes...
...cheurs de perles and Delibes' Lakmé. Maestro Lenzi busied himself trying to trace the s'ource of a sudden sourness in his choral arrangements. At last he pinned it down, called José into his office and fired him. Less than an hour later, Diva Eva tottered in, convulsed in sobs and imploring another chance for the young man. "But he doesn't know the first thing about singing," protested Lenzi-"no caliber, no pitch, no nothing." "In all my years in the theater," proclaimed the outraged protectress, "I have never witnessed an attitude like this...
...golden throats, and sang. Operagoers still demand, and get, fine voices, but most of them have now been conditioned by Broadway and Hollywood to demand something more: good-looking, cleanly directed and well-rehearsed casts. So the Met scouts keep hunting for all-round performers. Some of their latest diva-debutantes...
After a Salzburg recital, at which courteous critics favorably compared her personality with that of France's Mistinguetr but tactfully omitted mention of her voice, oldtime Opera Diva Maria Jeritza, now a mellow 63, arrived in Vienna. Looking forward to hearing her try another comeback next week, enthusiastic fans swarmed the streets; a band serenaded her hotel until she stepped out on the balcony and threw garlands of flowers to the crowd. Her husband, a Newark umbrella manufacturer, was doing his part to help the buildup. He had already given away 10,000 umbrellas to his wife...
Divorced. By Rosa Melba Ponselle, 53, longtime (1918-37) Metropolitan Opera diva: Carle Andrew Jackson, 45, son of Howard Wilkinson Jackson, onetime mayor of Baltimore; after 13 years of marriage, no children; in Baltimore...