Word: jeritzas
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...Vienna Baron Herbert von Popper, nephew by marriage of Singer Maria Jeritza von Popper, was arrested on a charge of stealing a Viennese socialite's $12,000 necklace...
...Herbert Pulitzer gave a golf tournament. Some one gave a party at which all the guests were costumed to represent theme songs. Mr. & Mrs. John North Willys arrived. The Henry Seligmans gave a party at the Café Marguery of the Bath & Tennis Club. Edward T. Stotesbury and Maria Jeritza attended. Professor Raymond T. Moley came to visit Mr. & Mrs. Joseph P. Kennedy. Joseph E. Widener and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney went to the races at Hialeah. The A. Atwater Kents entertained at dinner. The Chester Dales arrived. So did John Jacob Astor. So did the Edward F. Huttons...
Talk of a big new opera company buzzed louder and clearer in Manhattan last week than any of the many opera rumors of the past year. Soprano Maria Jeritza and Tenor Beniamino Gigli, both out of the Metropolitan this year, were two names connected with it. Richard Strauss, the story went, would be one of its conductors, Fritz Reiner another. Max Reinhardt, Ernst Lubitsch and Robert Edmond Jones would stage its productions in up-to-date fashion. Youthful members of Society would be called upon for support instead of the staid and settled folk who sit in the boxes...
...gave. There he sat the night plump little Marcella Sembrich sang her farewell; the night Geraldine Farrar first appeared as the ragged goosegirl in Die Königskinder, surrounded by a flock of live geese which she insisted on having against all other judgment; the night golden-haired Maria Jeritza gave her first breath-taking performance of Tosca and astounded New Yorkers by singing the Vissi d' arte lying flat on the stage; the night Marion Talley made her debut with a delegation from Kansas City to ballyhoo her placid, immature performance; the night Antonio Scotti, celebrating his 25th...
With Salome over and no Metropolitan engagements to follow, Jeritza again astounded the music world and gratified her irrepressible nature by going to Boston to sing Cavalleria Rusticana and Lohengrin with Fortune Gallo's itinerant San Carlo Opera Company...