Word: donnas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more. Encouraged by the mother who had chaperoned .her career, the sister Florence who had taught her to sing, the telegraph-operating father who had flashed the first news of daughter's triumph from the wings, Marion Talley announced that she was through with being a prima donna. Her statement was as simple and matter of fact as herself: "My retirement is permanent. I am going West with my family. The farm might be in California and it might be in Colorado but I'm going to look first in the Middle West. I am going...
Back on the farm the former grand opera star will never sing again even for her own pleasure or to call the cows home to be milked as the evening sun goes down behind the Kansas hills. Perhaps the twenty-two year old prima donna never enjoyed singing anyhow. It may well have been the lure of the splendor of grand opera costumes that brought the soprano to New York in 1926 at the head of an army of enthusiastic supporters. Suspicions of this nature are strengthened when one recalls that in the statement to the press there...
Sued for Annulment. Donna Madelyn Nichols Taylor Garibaldi, by General Giuseppe Garibaldi of Stamford, Conn., civil engineer, antiFascist, grandson of the famed Italian liberator; in Nyack, N. Y. Said she: "The General seeks to annul our marriage . . . it is a much finer thing . . . than the business of an ugly New York divorce." Donna Madelyn divorced her first husband in Yucatan...
Last week. Bambino Romano, not yet turned 18 months, was completely forgotten as Milan tea table gossips buzzed. The secret was not that Donna Rachele Mussolini is burgeoning again, though as a matter of fact she is. The terrific and appalling piece of gossip was that Donna Rachele recently said to a most intimate-and seemingly most faithless-friend: "I am still a Socialist at heart. I could not turn Fascist with Nito...
...light of subsequent events, it is clear that the wicked widow thus flayed is Donna Barone, relict of the Fascist diplomat who began negotiations on behalf of Signor Benito Mussolini with the Holy See. She it was who divulged to foreign correspondents in Rome the half-truths which caused half the newspapers of the world to print maps showing that the new Papal State would be some six times larger than has turned out to be the case...