Word: jeritzas
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...went directly to the star dressing room, unwrapped their parcels, and began hanging yellow brocade. By 6 p.m., all was ready for their mistress: the ugly green walls and dowdy dressing table were resplendent with silk. It was the royal treatment, for it is not every day that Maria Jeritza comes back to sing...
...Jeritza could hardly restrain herself from giving lessons. Once she grabbed an astonished young partner in the "Czardas" number, whirled him nearly off his feet, crying, "Here-a Hungarian goes like this!" Another time, a dancer wound up in front of her. "Behind me! Behind me!'' she cried. "Never get in front of anybody on the stage!" Nobody really cared that the luster was gone from her voice. "Naturally, she's not going to sing the way she did a generation back," a musician said. "Nobody expects her to. But also don't forget that...
After the curtain calls, there was almost as much of a show backstage. For Jeritza, it was like old times. Five barons came to salute her in her dressing room, and they helped carry her flowers to her car. Says Jeritza with a dazzling smile: "Wasn't that delicious...
...minutes after the final curtain the famed old star tossed flowers back into the audience almost as fast as they were presented to her onstage. The standing ovation stopped only when Jeritza whispered over the footlights in a tiny halting voice: "My beloved Viennese. I am so happy . . . Thank...
...even the critics could force themselves to write that Jeritza's singing had been bad. Explained a nostalgic Viennese: "You can betray the Austrian government any time. But to betray the Opera is treason. Nobody would dare...