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Meanwhile the staffs of General Obregon and President Calles discussed with animation in an adjoining coach the details of an attempt upon the President's life, early last fortnight. A crazed woman, Maria Luisa Jauregui, had fired six shots at him, all of which went wild...
...Married. Luisa Tetrazzini, 52, diva; to one Pietro Vernatti, 32, her onetime tenant; in the Town Hall of Florence, Italy...
...fortnight ago Mme. Luisa Tetrazzini canceled an engagement in Albert Hall, London. She could not sing, she explained, because she had taken a severe chill while vocalizing at the obsequies of the late Queen Alexandra. Last week she stood on the stage of Plymouth Hall and murmured in a rasping whisper that her cold had grown worse but that her protege, Luella Paikin, would substitute for her. Five minutes after she left the platform she broke down, summoned a physician, went...
...Luisa Tetrazzini-she for whom cannon have been fired, roses thrown, dress-suited cavaliers hitched in place of horses to glistening carriages-appeared in Albert Hall, London, before some Britishers. The Hall was more than half empty. The buxom woman trilled her best but Oh! the stolid faces, Ah! the gaping stalls. Afterwards, downcast, she assailed her agents, saying that they had charged too ninth, advertised too little. The agents politely replied that a singer of Tetrazzini's fame did not need much advertising, that she could command tall rates, but that she should not cheapen her voice...
...Evening Standard, London journal, telegraphed to Florence to ask if Mme. Luisa Tetrazzini would sing from London to millions of intuned British radiophiles. The London newspaper also mentioned a few neat words about the remuneration; current rumor said it was the highest fee that she had ever received for a single performance...