Word: elsas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Donahue, rich Hutton cousin. Last summer they were reported engaged. She arrived in the U. S. six months ago for the purpose of marrying him. But Mrs. Donahue Sr. does not like actresses. Her engagement broken, Wendy Barrie followed Henry VIII's other wives (Merle Oberon, Binnie Barnes, Elsa Lanchester and Everly Gregg) to Hollywood...
...Lehmann is to sing the part of Sieglinde, a role in which she has become justly famous, and Kirsten Flagstad that of Brunhilde. Two other Wagnerian operas, "Lohengrin" and "Die Meistersinger," are to be given on Wednesday afternoon and Friday evening respectively, with Lotte Lehmann singing the part of Elsa in the former. It is interesting to note that this is the same role in which she made her debut before Boston audiences during the last season of the ill-fated Chicago Opera Company. "La Traviata," "Lakme," "Faust," "Peterlbbetson," and "Lucia da Lammermoor" are also being given in this week...
...radio on the Ford Symphony Hour. She hurried then to Boston to sing in the famed old mansion which belonged to Mrs. Jack Gardner who had Nellie Melba for her guest there 30 years ago. Back in Manhattan she was then to sing in Lohengrin, her first Metropolitan Elsa. Next week to benefit Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's Free Milk Fund for Babies she will enact the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier, a great and subtle role of which Lotte Lehmann has proved herself the greatest interpreter...
...hornet last week because she had not thought of the dream party was Professional Hostess Elsa Maxwell whose living comes from giving unimaginative socialites just such tips on how to have fun. A fat, nervous spinster whose business slogan is "It's too, too divine!" she went from San Francisco to Europe to teach boom-time U. S. millionaires and miscellaneous princelings how to have Murder Parties, Come-As-You-Were-When-the-Autobus-Called Parties, Scavenger Parties, Come-As-Somebody-Else Parties, Come-As-Your-Opposite-Parties, Come-As-the-Person-You-Like-Best Parties. Elsa Maxwell gave...
Same day Stenographer Elsa Sittell, arrested for saying "You can bet your life Hitler is no Aryan!" (TIME, Jan. 7) was released without trial after ten days in jail, apparently because she is a U. S. citizen and the German Government feared the publicity she could give them. Correspondents waiting outside a thin door heard the prosecutor shout at the top of his voice "Miss Sittell you are free! You can go wherever you please!! You can make any statement you like about your imprisonment BUT BE SURE TO SPEAK THE EXACT TRUTH...