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...Contralto Maria Gay, an oldtime Carmen, had not been touring the Riviera with her husband, Tenor Giovanni Zenatello, two years ago, if they had not stopped off at the opera house in Montpellier and heard an unknown French girl sing Lucia in true coloratura fashion, U. S. audiences would not be paying fancy prices this season to hear Lily Pons. The Zenatellos brought Lily Pons to Manhattan, got her an audition at the Metropolitan Opera House. Three months after her sensational debut (TIME, Jan. 19, 1931), Lily Pons abruptly left the hotel suite which she and her oldish Dutch husband...
Those entertaining brothers, the Royal Rumanians, were at it again last week. King Carol II, still somewhat tender on the jaw where Prince Nicholas had punched him, forced a decision through the Bucharest Supreme Court that the marriage of slack-chinned Prince Nicholas and his buxom inamorata, Mme Jana Lucia Deletej, was nonexistent. Not satisfied with that, the Bucharest District Court immediately annulled the marriage, leaving the grave judges in the embarrassing legal position of having invalidated something which never occurred. For good measure the Rumanian Supreme Army Council sentenced Prince Nicholas to two months imprisonment "for marrying a commoner...
...Identify the following, indicating briefly the part each played in the news of the past month: 1. George W. Olvany. 2. Hiram Johnson. 3. Amos W. W. Woodcock. 4. Duke of Manchester. 5. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. 6. Viscount of Ickornshaw. 7. Jana Lucia Deletz. 8. Mukden. 9. Albert C. Ritchie. 10. Theodore Dreiser...
...thing led to another. Last week Prince Nicholas and his lady, whose name is Mme Jana Lucia Deletz, climbed into the Prince's car again and eloped. Hours later a telephone call came through to a lady-in-waiting at the royal palace from the little village of Tohan near Buzeu, 125 mi. away...
...fell in love. Still Phoebe, dead but restless, threatened her, and still her mother's influence thwarted an almost materialized evil. In time Mary's son was sent to the house for a visit; the old warfare continued. With the outwardly insane but inwardly heroic death of Lucia, the last old lady. Author Spencer rings down the curtain on a ghost story that is also a subtly convincing psychological drama, a novel that might have been ghosted by Henry James himself...