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Tosca will open the Metropolitan's season in Philadelphia Nov. 2, with Maria Jeritza, a blonde, exuberant Tosca, to race the gauntlet of operatic emotions. Jealous first, then playful, loving completely Mario Cavaradossi, she brings him thus unwillingly into a political trap laid by Chief of Police Antonio Scotti, sleekest of nil Searpias, who wants the lady for himself. The second act will come with his melodramatic crescendoes. Tosca will surrender and Scarpia will supposedly draw up his pardon while Tosca's hand, fumbling, despairing, will find the carving knife on a supper table. She will stab him, steal away...
Through quaint and Alpine Salzburg, in Austria, prowled last week a Manhattanite with a tiny cinema camera. While local mountaineers gawked he accosted a honey-haired Diana, persuaded her to pose before a crazily swung gate, "shot" Maria Jeritza...
Some weeks ago Maria Jeritza filed suit for $25,000 against a pair of Cohen brothers, Bronx cigar manufacturers, for naming one of their cigars "La Jeritza...
Last week the case came up in court. Counsel for the Cohens argued that the plaintiff is really a baroness, wife of Leopold Frederick Salvatore Baron Popper de Podhragy, that thus she is no longer Jeritza, has no more right to the name than have the Cohens. But Federal Judge Thatcher thought differently, decided in favor of "La Jeritza", ordered the Cohens to cease using her name...
...There is another tale of a White House dinner. Mrs. Coolidge was in a lively mood; she had attended a concert-the Philadelphia Orchestra, Paderewski, or Jeritza-and was quite enthusiastic ... until the President, laying down a fork and drawing a napkin across his lips, interjected: "'I can't understand why you keep running around to these musicales when there are five pianos right here in the White House...