Word: mimi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charm of La Boheme (Intergloria Film) sets characters very like Puccini's Mimi and Rodolfo on a tragic course in a modern cinema plot, contrives to fit the woeful wind-up into La Boheme's familiar last act. With vigorous operatic Tenor Jan Kiepura and his cinema-songstress wife, Marta Eggerth, singing the opera's chief arias, the music charms, the film's scheme proves a workable one for bringing grand opera to the screen...
...Tenor Jan Kiepura's exploits as Central Europe's cinema idol were no particular recommendation. But they found before the performance was over that a virile figure was not Kiepura's only asset. Tall, handsome Kiepura overacted at times, flopped melodramatically upon the prostrate corpse of Mimi. But his singing was agreeably robust, warm in tone quality. Applauding oldsters agreed that there was nothing the matter with Kiepura's diaphragm...
...Manhattan last week was a handsome, vivacious brunette of ample presence whose Roman and Catholic distinctions are as the sands of the sea. A niece and godchild of Pope Leo XIII, Countess Anna Laetitia ("Mimi") Pecci-Blunt received her first communion at the hands of the Pontiff himself. Her father, Count Camillo Pecci, was Commander of the Noble Guards of the Vatican and a leader of the "Blacks" who, before Conciliation with Mussolini in 1929, upheld the Papal Court in Roman society against the "Whites" who honored the King. Her mother was the Spanish Marquesa des Bueno, descendant...
...Armand Tokatyan (Rodolfo) hit his top notes squarely but could not resist hanging on to them. Rosa Tentoni sang Mimi with more intelligence than warmth. Soprano Margaret Daum, who took the lead in Gian-Carlo Menotti's recent Amelia Goes to the Ball, overacted impudent Musetta, won praise for her fluty, delightful singing...
...Avenue (Twentieth Century-Fox), like most musicals, has for a plot a clothesline upon which the producers can hang whatever suits their fancy. This time the line is pretty raveled, the appendages superb. Gary Blake (Dick Powell) is starring in his own extravaganza. One act is a burlesque of Mimi Caraway (Madelein'e Carroll), world's richest girl. Furious Mimi slaps Gary's face, then falls in love with him. He changes the offensive skit, but Mona Merrick (Alice Faye), his jealous leading lady, ad libs to make it worse than ever. Mimi then sets...