Word: gildas
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...that was creating all the excitement, the girl who had provided the daily press with one of the best human-interest stories of the year?the new prima donna, 19-year-old Marion Nevada Talley, who for the big evening last week was supposed not to be herself but Gilda, daughter of Rigoletto, jester of the Duke of Mantua...
...nervous, awkward little run, as if she would start at once with the business of the evening. But for the audience the business of the evening had begun. They would not wait to hear her sing. They clapped and clapped until Marion Talley had to give up being Gilda and bow many times, shy, awkward little bows as if she realized the time was not yet ripe for bowing. A few remembered they had come to hear her sing, hissed for quiet. "Mia Padre", she began, trying once more to be Gilda...
...Frank Sullivan says in conclusion: "After Mr. Ali's performance, one does not hesitate to say that the stomach has definitely arrived in art. It is true, of course, that Miss Gilda Gray and Dr. William J. Burr, the noted stomach specialist, have revealed the stomach to us in its true light, but Hadji Ali places it before us in a whimsical, lovable aspect hitherto unknown. And he makes it instructive as well as entertaining...
Mary Lewis is tall, dark. Her eyelashes are longer than those of most opera stars, her ankles slimmer. Her face is pretty in the strong sun of midday. She has 15 parts in her repertoire, including Louise, Manon, Marguerite, Mimi, Gilda (in Rigoletto), Antonia (in the Tales of Hoffmann), and Thais...
This elegantly costumed gentleman who was the cynosure of all eyes on the Paris had affronted Miss Hampton. For it was indeed true that he had been photographed aboard ship with Gilda Gray (Mrs. Gaillard T. Boag) but no camera had included in one glimpse him with Hope Hampton. As the ship proceeded up the harbor, the well-dressed gentleman was photographed alone, with his soft green felt hat on his head, and with the little green hat removed, and with Myron T. Herrick, and with Emile Daeschner, and with Under Secretary of the Treasury Winston...