Word: donnas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge was there. So were Mrs. Coolidge, Mr. & Mrs. Frank Waterman Stearns, the British Ambassador & Lady Isabella Howard, the Italian Ambassador & Nobil Donna...
...Donna Grazia Deledda, Italian authoress of Sardinian tales, received the 1927 literature award. Medical diplomas for 1926 and 1927 went respectively to Dr. Johannes Fibiger, Danish cancer expert; and to Dr. Julius Wagner von Jauregg, Viennese professor of medicine. Finally the 1927 physics award was shared by two scholarly investigators of electrophysics: Professors Arthur Holly Compton (U.S.) and Charles T. R. Wilson (Britain...
...went back afterwards looking for the prima donna, found her in her stocking feet, just not able to get back into her tight new shoes. Thus Mrs. Long found a new pupil; and the career was launched...
...spring of 1898 Maurice Grau, then General Manager of the Metropolitan, offered to let her sing in a Sunday night concert, but Farrar, 16, refused. A Sunday night concert was no occasion for a prima donna's debut. Instead Sidney Farrar sold his store in Melrose, borrowed, in addition, from a Mrs. Bertram Webb of Boston some $30,000* and the Farrars started for Europe?on a cattle boat...
...chorus, the stage hands, the musicians in the orchestra, the ushers. She brought glamour to the humdrum of rehearsals. Her escapades were their bread-and-butter talk. She always seemed to do the opportune thing at the opportune time, came out on top. She was the only prima donna ever to have her own permanent dressing room. Two of the older singers had been bickering for one for weeks. Gatti was obdurate?and then Farrar came in, casually. No one would mind, would they, if she took that dirty, airless room by the stairs and fixed...