Word: jeritzas
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...Maria Jeritza arrived in Manhattan one morning last week after an extended concert tour, sang for the first time that evening over the radio, said a gracious goodbye to a million listeners-in and sailed two hours later for Europe. Her season's earnings were estimated at approximately $120,000 -$60,000 for 16 weeks of opera at the Metropolitan, $40,000 for concerts, $20,000 from Victor record royalties and additional "items." She directed that any damages recovered from her $25,000 suit against the Cohen Brothers, cigar manufacturers of the Bronx, for using her name...
...Senator So & So" very short-sighted of a tire producer to christen his inner tubes for The Battleship Maine.* What adjective, then, can be applied to Louis and Isadore Cohen of New York City, who without permission bestowed upon a squat, ugly, evil-smelling cigar** the name of Maria Jeritza, prima donna...
Last week Madame Jeritza filed suit against the Cohens. Her full name, she explained, is "Maria Popper de Podhragy Jeritza, widely known throughout the civilized world." Could the name "La Jeritza" mean anyone else? Did not every Frenchman, Italian, Spaniard, use the definite article "La" to refer to her, the supreme, the only Jeritza, pre-eminent soprano of four continents? And this name the 'Messrs. Cohen had usurped. They had put it, over the trade name of "Cohen Bros.," on two kinds of box. One kind contained some dismal cheroots affectionately known as "Little Cigarros." The other contained larger cheroots...
...Madame Jeritza asked $25,000 damages...
...swept across the stage of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The big curtain was down tight; another makeshift drop shut off the people seated on the stage, from the strip of stage whereon the singer was to stand. At the appointed hour, the great curtain lifted, slowly, solemnly, disclosed Jeritza, there, ready, her weight on one foot in true Bernhardtian manner. Her husband, big Baron von Popper, had carried her on, propped her against the piano, left her there to give pleasure to a great audience that applauded her singing, her pluck...