Word: famed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...leaped into fame and being when Mr. Baldwin said, in the course of a public address...
...died for Helen. Brave poets since have spent their dearest words on her. She has been Menelaus' Helen, Paris' Helen; Homer's Helen, too, and the Helen of Herodotus, Euripides, of Kit Marlowe, Alexander Pope, Andrew Lang. Recently John Erskine, perspicacious professor at Columbia University, won fame with his Helen refurbished. Last week and for the first time, still proud, still beautiful, she came to the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan-this time the Helen of Composer Richard Strauss, given new being by Singer Maria Jeritza...
There she became the Great Jeritza to a gay, music-loving Vienna. Her fame grew with her repertoire. A beautiful prima donna has always seemed a phenomenon. Here was one magnificently built, with sea-blue eyes and golden hair. The public raved. Composers made their music for her. She created Strauss' Ariadne, later the Empress in Die Frau ohne Schatten. She was his Salome, his Octavian (Der Rosenkavalier). He saw her in Max Reinhardt's revival of Offenbach's Belle Hélène and an idea was born. It simmered and swelled until last winter...
Olszewska's fame had preceded her. Many had heard her in Europe and brought home glowing tales of the big, impressive woman whose mighty voice could make Wagner almost as thrilling as the orchestra. More remembered her as the one who spat at Maria Jeritza three summers ago in Vienna. They recalled dimly the picture the press had given them then of an enraged Brünhilde storming across the stage, hurling invectives at two of her colleagues chatting and chortling as they awaited their cues in the wings; of that same vicious Valkyrie going at them finally, gathering a maximum...
...World Series having been finished and the fame of Yankee Pitcher Waite Hoyt having been augmented, Mr. Hoyt has hibernated with profit into vaudeville. He has a fair baritone voice and his father, Ad Hoyt, used to be a minstrel player; so he was not labeled "a freak" (i.e., one who capitalizes on his fame in an alien line...