Word: imperia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...loves home and normalcy, Hollywood is grist to the mill of the farceur. Van Vechten takes a spineless playwright, lover of normalcy, and pitches the unwilling wretch into a kaleidoscope of temperamental screen-stars, their mamas (chaperones?) and parasitic Spanish nobles, of shrewd Jewish producers and bland rewrite men. Imperia Starling snatches Ambrose Deacon to her Italio-Spanish-Tudor-Romanesque villa, gives him a small dinner party for 60 or 80, makes passionate love to him, orders him to write her a script. He escapes to New Mexico. She pursues with a sheriff. In self-defense he signs a rival...
...Berlin. From 1901 to 1906 the sensation at the Berlin Imperia, Opera was MISS GERALDINE FARRAR AUS NEW YORK. She began as Marguerite in Faust, doing the unheard of thing, singing in Italian in a Berlin house, holding a contract saying that she need not sing in German until she had had time to learn the language. She was 19, sparkling, as she is today. The Kaiser was interested; so was the Crown Prince. The Hofmarshall brought her an invitation to appear at the Palace one night. She must wear black or lavender and gloves, for the court...