Word: leonora
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...rhymes with Thais), a prominent society man whose accent is not too heavy, whose risqué stories not too slight, is an affable, easygoing gentleman who twirls his mustache and pops his eyes at the sight of an attractive ankle. Last week he was sad. His U.S. wife, Signora Leonora Sutton Evans Lais, daughter of a New York City doctor, and his 19-year-old daughter, Edna, had decided to remain in the U.S. Admiral Lais packed. The U.S. had once more rebuffed the Axis...
...Brooke plenty of headaches. They came to be known as the Princesses Gold, Baba and Pearl, in spite of the fact that His Highness the Raja once scornfully pointed out to British newspapers that Sarawak has no legal Princesses. He gave his three daughters proper titles as Miss Leonora Margaret Brooke, Miss Elizabeth Brooke, Miss Nancy Valerie Brooke...
...Leonora Margaret (Princess Gold) pleased her royal father by becoming the second wife of the late 2nd Earl of Inch-cape, P. & O. Co. shipping tycoon, making something like a royal alliance, considering the importance of P. & O. in the Indies. But Elizabeth (Princess Pearl) married Jazz Bandster Harry Roy. At her marriage the Roy Jazz Band played the leader's original composition Sarawaki as a wedding march. Nancy Valerie outraged her father's sensibilities even more by marrying Wrestler Bob Gregory. Still worse, Mr. and Mrs. Gregory promptly journeyed to Hollywood, where the by-now publicity-conscious...
Chief noveltv of the week was the Il Trovatore in which Rose Bampton sang her first soprano role at the Metropolitan. Since her debut in 1932 Miss Bampton has always been billed for contralto or mezzo roles. Last autumn she sang the exacting role of Leonora in Munich, Prague and Stockholm, but saved her U. S. soprano debut for the spring season. Audiences rejoiced that personable Miss Bampton was trustworthy in the high notes, could hit D without difficulty, would now be able to sing soprano heroines instead of old, villainous contralto women...
...Fiamma. Mme Cigna made her Metropolitan debut last month as Aïda. Her singing was so warm and rich, her dramatic sense so keen, that the audience called her before the curtain time after time. Later she sang Ponchielli's La Gioconda, Bellini's Norma, Leonora in Verdi's Il Trovatore. Though Cigna has a frail lower voice and occasionally forces notes, she sang these ornate roles with brilliance and spirit. Johnson wanted to extend her term so she could be Donna Anna in a revival of Mozart's Don Giovanni. La Scala, where...