Word: hoydens
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Singers able to breathe life into the role have been few and far between. First there was Minnie Hawk, a very ladylike Carmen compared to her successors. Then came Calvé, whose realistic interpretation won her the name of being the first singing actress. Farrar made her Carmen a hoyden as incalculable as the wind, kept it popular in Manhattan to the end of her regime. Mary Garden has done similar service in Chicago. Last week for the first time, the Metropolitan presented the Carmen of Maria Jeritza...
...certain principles which our organization did not care to sponsor ... it might do harm to our youth.'' Detroit women characterized the criticism of Miss Royden as "absurd," but in Philadelphia, after reading the reports of her arrival, women's clubs retracted their invitations. Some women spoke sharply of "Hoyden Royden"; others, baffled by her direct and vigorous speech, took refuge in expressions of fluffy indignation. On the day after her arrival, Agnes Maude Royden gave a lecture at a Manhattan branch of the Young Women's Christian Association. Said Preacher Royden, referring to the distinction between the moral codes...
...Palace entertained strangers at her 14 performances: some who remembered the Cavalleria at the Metropolitan Opera 34 years ago when Calve made her debut; some who had seen her first Carmen, a slim, sensual hoyden who attracted 15 sold-out houses in a single season. No words were too dear for her then. The late Henry Theophilus Finck of the New York Evening Post has said: "She had everything in her favor that a fairy could possibly bestow on an operatic artist: a beautiful and amazingly expressive face; a voluptuous figure, with a rare grace of movement; a voice which...
...that sort of thing-vastly more entertaining than a Times Square revue could ever be, for the revue is not native while the night club is- even in a theatre. It has the perfection of a weed that grows unashamedly where Nature intended. It has the dignity of a hoyden who scorns the hypocrisy of petticoats. Undoubtedly, it lacks refinement and many another virtue. "Honestly, Tex," says a stage policeman along in the second act, "don't you think virtue pays?" To which the Soul of Candor replies with a tolerant shrug, "Sure, if you got a market...
Rough House Rosie (Clara Bow) is moderately diverting nonsense about a hoyden from Tenth Avenue who wants to be a lady. She makes a hit in a cabaret, appears in society under the patronage of a handsome gentleman friend, distresses her amiable prizefighting boy friend. But the drinking, lovemaking, gambling of the upper crust disgust her tender soul so much- that she returns just in time to cheer her prizefighter on to championship. A luridly punning sub-titier adds to the fun. Thus the Czechoslovakian princess is said to have "married twice but her Czechs were no good...