Word: melba
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Married. Robert Bruce Mathias, 22, Stanford's two-time Olympic decathlon winner (1948, '52) and star fullback; and Melba Wiser, 21, a college classmate; in Stanford Memorial Church, Stanford, Calif. After his graduation next January, Mathias will report for two years' active duty as a Marine Reserve second lieutenant...
...great divas* of the "golden age of opera"; in Manhattan. Famed for the technical excellence of her voice and her "Botticellian" beauty, Soprano Eames sang in French, German and Italian opera at the Metropolitan from 1891 to 1909 with such glamorous colleagues as Caruso, Sembrich, Schumann-Heink and Melba...
...Caviar & Melba. Beverley began his glamorous career (in 1921) as a reporter for London's gaudy Sunday Dispatch. The aim of this journal was to supply its readers with "an astonishing array of obscure countesses, viscountesses and . . . wives of baronets, all pontificating with monotonous regularity on the problems of the hour." As many of these noble ladies were "barely literate," it was up to Beverley to invent their opinions in order to have something to report. The rest of his job was writing what the Dispatch called "caviar-and-champagne" items, e.g., MYSTERY DOCTOR DENIES KNOWLEDGE OF COUNTESS; ARAB...
...happy day for Beverley when the Dispatch dispatched him on an interview with Prima Donna Nellie Melba, to get her views on a currently newsy murder. They became good friends; she introduced him to high society, and he, in return, tried to write her autobiography for her. He found it hard sledding...
...pointed out that only yesterday Melba had said she looked like a cook and faked all her top notes...