Word: donnas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eleven months of the year motorcars may be prosaic things of steel and glass. But in January, when the automobile fairs are held throughout the land, this prima donna of the industrial stage is greeted with acclaim and if her appearance succeeds she is well rewarded...
...another famed matinee idol, Leo Ditrichstein, is the sort that Actor Tellegen, self-confessedly a mighty pre-War wooer, must adore. Action of this old pinchbeck piece takes place in an operatic troupe. The leading member of the company (Mr. Tellegen) falls in love with a young prima donna who has already pledged herself to his understudy. It takes the understudy's mother, a former friend of the great lover, and a great deal of theatrical pyrotechnics to swerve Actor Tellegen from his quarry, send him off to Lake Como a finer, better man for his sacrifice...
...naive Pbns ways and docile disposition mislead some people. She is smart. She works hard on her music although her natural musical instinct is phenomenally sound. It did not take her long to learn that a prima donna who travels with pets gets photographed: she brought a baby jaguar back from her triumphal visit to Buenos Aires this summer. She also has learned that divorce rumors after sudden success are bad publicity. Separated from her husband, she says: "Divorce...
...Author Hergesheimer with only second-rate objectives. He made the most of Vienna's 38 varieties of coffee, all "superlative," but concluded that the city was passee. Budapest, with its slightly Oriental flavor he liked better, though he was shocked, on going to hear the gypsy music, to hear "Donna e Mobile" instead. "It was not necessary to travel the far way from Pennsylvania to Hungary to learn that donne were mobile. They were mobile in West Chester...
...busy making an opera out of Laurence Stallings & Maxwell Anderson's riproaring What Price Glory? In Vienna Composer Robert Russell Bennett (Kansas City) will spend the summer writing music for a libretto by smart, versatile Robert A. Simon of The New Yorker. Maria Melbern, an oldtime Spanish prima donna, will be the heroine. The scene will be downtown Manhattan in the early 19th Century...