Word: donnas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...midcareer. Her book is chock-full of merry notes, and will be greedily devoured by lovers of personal chit-chat about beautiful and important people. There is the story of the strong-man Graff 1, who played Ursus in the opera Quo Vadis, and had to hold the prima donna in his arms for ten minutes at a time. "But oh," wails Jeritza, "how many times did I wish he were holding a sack of flour instead of myself! He had muscles like ridged steel. Resting on them was about as comfortable as lying on a pile of steel bars...
...years ago Geraldine Farrar, empress of Carmen, told a tumultuous and rather bitter farewell to the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Farrar-fans roared vociferously, "tossed their sweaty nightcaps in the air," and bore off such prizes as they could from the ensuing auction sale of the prima donna's stage trappings...
...return she was to have had her long desired American debut as an opera prima donna. She did sing with the Company in Detroit, Albany, New London. She sang the difficult role of the Countess in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, but under assumed names. Her appearance under her real name was to be reserved for Manhattan. In one Manhattan performance Mme. Walska was about to take her role, but stepped aside to enable a new singer to make her debut. She was to appear in the next performance of the Marriage of Figaro. But that performance never came...
Divorced. Mme. Takani Miura, Japanese prima donna, from Dr. Masataro Miura, vitamine expert, professor in Tokyo University, in Tokyo...
...prima donna who obeyed her husband...