Word: donnas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...just a girl," beamed Vice President Dawes, on first meeting Marion Nevada Talley, prima donna. Then, taking a long drag at his pipe, he added: "Don't acquire temperament." Miss Talley enjoyed Washington last week; Senator Capper of Kansas escorted her about the city; Senator Reed claimed her for Missouri; Senator Bruce, music lover, rushed up to be introduced; Senate page boys gaped; Mrs. Coolidge went to her concert...
...distinguished in at least four fields of music. Though his early compositions were not remarkable, he was even then known, and is still admired and feared, as peer of the greatest orchestral conductors. "He knew every instrument, and imperiously got what he wanted," said one critic. A veritable prima donna for temper, he once threatened to hurl his baton in the faces of the Weimar choir, unless their singing immediately improved. It was not surprising, then, that his second field turned out to be orchestral composition, particularly the tone poem, that free vehicle for originality. His melodious yet powerful...
Maria Jeritza, prima donna...
...Play's The Thing-A Molnar jewel in which a naughty prima donna is restored to the appearance of virtue...
...tempted her. Came Boheme with Edith Mason and then-Resurrection with Mary Garden. It mattered little to Chicagoans that her voice was some times cloudy, sometimes thin, that tones were tossed this way and that, sometimes too negligible to be tones at all. That evening she was no prima donna. She was Katiusha, loveliest of peasant girls, wrongly accused of the murder of a drunken patron; Katiusha, proud of her sordid conquests, begging money of the man who would reclaim her soul and then-a new Katiusha, who, renouncing him with three symbolic kisses of the Russian Easter, shouldered...