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...precocious age of 17 she became a Metropolitan Opera diva. At that point, pert little Patrice Munsel thought her career was dead ahead down a straight & narrow path. She would dutifully trill her way through all the Met's coloratura roles, and by the time she was a creaky 25, "I would know it all, retire, get married and start having children." She is 25 now, and neither retired, married nor creaky. But she has learned that, "starting as young as I did, your career is apt to take a funny turn...
...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...