Word: marcella
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...coloratura roles are in operas in which the heroine goes daft, is throttled, poisoned, knifed, or dies improbably of tuberculosis, along about 11 p.m. But in The Daughter of the Regiment, a coloratura has more chance for fun. The greatest singers of the last century-Jenny Lind, Adelina Patti, Marcella Sembrich, Luisa Tetrazzini-made the most of the chance, although the heft of the last two made the fun pretty heavy going. Lily Pons's principal worry is keeping her weight up to 105 lb., which she does by eating plenty of potatoes...
From bomb-blasted London came first pictures of rich, resplendent Sir Ibrahim, 67-year-old, martially habilimented Sultan of Johore, and his new Rumanian wife, red-blonde Marcella Mendl...
...Sultan up to last month, when she was killed by a German bomb while shopping for a fur coat in Canterbury. Said the Sultan of Johore: "I am heartbroken." Exactly six days later his old eyes kindled again as he bought a Red Cross flag from Miss Marcella Mendl, mellow Rumanian blonde who speaks five languages, is distantly related to cafe society's famed Sir Charles Mendl, has lately been driving an A. R. P. ambulance in London...
Shortly before Recorder Mapleson died, in 1937, a deaf but diligent phonographic antiquarian named William H. Seltsam got permission to go through the Mapleson records. There, Collector Seltsam found not only peeping vocal relics of such golden-agers as Emma Eames, Johanna Gadski, Marcella Sembrich, but 16 records of the otherwise unrecorded* Jean de Reszke. Thrilled Phonographer Seltsam started raising money to re-record Mapleson's de Reszke samples on modern discs...
...University of Kentucky, taking 16 examinations in two days and getting record high marks. He coached athletics at Versailles High School and Centre College, also played summer professional baseball (pitcher) in Canada. He married pretty Mildred Watkins, a singing teacher in the Versailles School, and now has four children: Marcella, 16; Mimi, 12; Albert Benjamin Jr., 8 ; Joseph Daniel...