Word: jeritzas
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...Maria Jeritza, prima donna...
...performance of "Die Walkuere", on Saturday night, with Jeritza doing some remarkable galloping over the pasteboard mountains of the Metropolitan stage...
...first box, had been a man of many words, he might have told her of the rising fame of Chicago opera, of such artists as Edith Mason, Mary Garden, Rosa Raisa, Cyrena Van Gordon, Charles Marshall, Tito Schipa. It is true that Chicago has no Rosa Ponselle, no Maria Jeritza, no Gigli, no Martinelli, and that it dispensed with the high-priced Amelita Galli-Curci; but often the Chicago operas more than equal the Metropolitan in vitality and freshness. Mr. Insull, being both quiet and reticent, undoubtedly neglected to tell Her Majesty that he is the Tsar of Chicago opera...
...kiss. The steps to the throne again - the Emperor and all his people gathered once more to see Turandot lead in Calaf, Prince of the Tartars, and announce his name as Love. Opinions for the most part were in perfect accord. The production itself was lavish beyond compare, Maria Jeritza was wonderfully effective as Turandot, so glinty cold as to send the shivers down 4,000 spines as she shrilled her desire to avenge all men. Giacomo Lauri-Volpi was a loud, adequately heroic Calaf. But there were none of those sweet, curving melodies for either of them to sing...
...Lord, how I love good food!"); of not smoking or drinking; and of swimming daily in the Mediterranean, with no bathing suit and no company save two police dogs. She told her famed escape-from-a-shark story (TIME, Sept. 13), patted her bobbed hair and apropos of Maria Jeritza's unviolated flaxen locks, accused unbobbed women of having "microbes." She knew all about James John ("Gene") Tunney's having whipped Jack Dempsey for the world's heavyweight boxing championship. "My boy won," she said. "He's an angel, and so good looking. . . . I wouldn't mind a bit being...