Word: donnas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scotch rumors buzzing in the world press last week, this unprecedented announcement was made at Rome's Palazzo Venezia, thick-walled executive sanctum of the Dictator: "Her Excellency Donna Rachele Mussolini, wife of II Capo del Governo, is not with child...
...afternoon the more serious girls arrived to inspect the cows, learn what they could of milking's art. Boasted Debutante Carol Prichitt: "I once lived on a farm. . . . You know, it had a house at one end and we used to grow radishes." Only successful rehearsers were Donna Marina Torlonia (who once milked a Philadelphia cow) and Princess Dolly Obolensky (whose family once owned some cows in France). At midnight the cows were wakened from sleep for the contest. Chattering debutantes, dressed in sport clothes, trooped from the dance floor and lined up. Blushing attendants led them...
...Metropolitan in Manhattan, where she made her debut in 1906, she continued to have her own way. As the goosegirl in Die Konigskinder she drove the property man to distraction by her successful insistence upon having live geese on the stage. She was the only Metropolitan prima donna ever to have her own permanent dressing room. Two older singers had been bickering for one for weeks but Manager Gatti-Casazza was obdurate. Miss Farrar went to his office casually one day, asked if any one would mind if she took that dirty airless room by the stairs. With Gatti...
...York last week an equally expensive audience attended the Green Ball at the Waldorf, watched Grand Duchess Marie of Russia, Donna Marina Torlonia, Mrs. James Russell Lowell, Mrs. Alexander Hamilton and Clare Boothe Brokaw stalking about the stage in green evening dresses...
...topped that transcontinental record with another in the opposite direction, in 10 hr. 4 min. Last month he beat that record by two minutes, flew back to Cleveland to win the Thompson Trophy, World's No. 1 closed-course race (100 mi. at 248 m.p.h.). A temperamental prima donna on the ground. Turner is a cold, nerveless machine...