Word: donnas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sense of the mysterious, shadowy glory of the play and its production can be translated in these brief sentences. The sorrow of centuries and the majesty of a great ration are prisoned in the tiny theatre. And strangely enough Mary Ellis, once original prima donna of the highly colored, highly contemporary musical comedy, Rose-Marie, is the leading actress, giving a performance for which a playwright prays...
...foolish enough to believe that a mod ern audience could not be more than politely moved by the graceful insipidities of the old score-that the days were past when a perfect trill was a signal for young men in evening clothes to unhitch the horses of a prima donna's carriage and pull her home themselves. The Chicago enthusiasts stopped short of this. But they held up the performance after she had sung the "Caro Nome," and gave Luella Melius ten curtain calls at the end of the act. Old Critic Glenn Dillard Gunn declared that he remembered...
...Toti Dal Monte, "world's smallest prima donna," Feoder Chaliapin, Mme. Johanna Gadski, arrived in Manhattan on the Berengaria...
...Coolidge as the guest of Mrs. Jardine attended the advance showing of the Department of Agriculture's annual Chrysanthemum Show; she received at the White House Donna Antoinette de Martino, wife of the Italian Ambassador to the U. S., Countess Volpi, and Henry P. Fletcher, U. S. Ambassador to Italy; Joe Nevin, "typical boy," called on Mrs. Coolidge and told her of plans for model boys' clubs; she received some 500 Vassar alumnae meeting at Washington...
Divorced. Miss Mary Ellis, until recently prima donna of Rose-Marie, from her second husband, Edwin H. Knopf, play producer, brother of Publisher Alfred A. Knopf; in Manhattan. Her first husband was one Louis Bernheimer. A month ago she suddenly left the cast of Rose-Marie. It was reported that she had strained her voice...