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...Carlo will continue its career as before, though it is likely that some of the U. S. singers will be transferred to the new organization. Most famed of these are Alice Gentle, whose home is in Seattle, Anna Fitzui (Chicago), Bianca Saroya (Philadelphia), Gilda Marcelle (Buffalo), Freda Werlein (New Or- leans), Bernice Shalker (Manhattan...
...possibilities of the movement must be apparent to all. After a strenuous session of Folies-stepping under the tutoring of Ned Weyburn, even Congress might be expected to accomplish something. Think what master-pieces would flow from the pen of Chesterton should he spend an hour daily with Gilda Grey! And the work of a John Roach Straton who had mastered the shimmy is beyond the farthest reach of the imagination...
...well-to-do man, the Australian public ranked her "an amateur." So she departed for Paris in 1884, trained her voice−and studied hard−under the famed Mme. Marchesi, adopted the name of Melba, hastily derived from Melbourne. She made her debut in Brussels in 1887, as "Gilda" in Verdi's Rigoletto and in Covent Garden (London) in 1888, when she sang the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor which always remained her favorite role. In 1893, she appeared at La Scala, Milan, and made her first visit to the U. S. Then began her brilliant career...
...Leviathan (United States)? Edwin V. Morgan, U. S. Ambassador to Brazil; Carl Laemmle, Jr., cinema producer; Gilda Gray, famed dancer, with her husband, Gil Boag, Broadway cabaret owner...
Helen Hayes is radiantly demure as the flapper, as deft and cocky as a bird. Hers is the only real spark of life in the piece. O. P. Heggie is condemned to suffocate his gorgeous Dickensian caricaturing in a stuffed shirt role. Kenneth MacKenna and Gilda Leary are others who try valiantly to keep their bearings...