Word: mimi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Slim, 15-year-old Betty Jaynes (Betty Jane Schultz) stayed abed much of the week, kept silent a full day previous to her debut with the Chicago City Opera Company as tuberculous Mimi in La Boheme. So ably did she sing that she won 21 curtain calls, unanimous praise from Chicago critics, brought the orchestra cheering to its feet, two pleading cinemagents to hers...
...candles to the Virgin Mary, waited for months without attempting to speak. When she returned to the Metropolitan in 1921 she established herself still more strongly with the Opera's subscribers. There was no one to excel her as Manon, Juliette, Mélisande, Violetta in La Traviata, Mimi in La Bohème, Fiora in L'Amore...
...complex convention applies even more strongly, since it confers the additional advantage of making it unnecessary to compose a lot of new music. Love Me Forever is therefore both an original story and a sort of sugar-coated version, once removed, of La Boheme, in which Miss Moore, as Mimi, finally makes her gala debut...
...have. . . ." The London Times summed up critical opinion when it said: "On the interpretative side Miss Moore had no vocal style to rank with those of her illustrious predecessors. . . . The ends of her phrases were apt to be untidy. ... In appearance she made a charming and credible figure of Mimi and her acting was straightforward, though it was addressed too much to the audience and on that account not as moving as it might have been...
...Theodore when he learns his cousin Ferdinand has been assassinated in Sarajevo. Theodore marries into his own class. During the War Irela's Irishman is shellshocked, dies. Years later, when she has grown old and dumpy, Irela's faithful impresario urges her to retire gracefully. Obstinately singing Mimi in La Bohême, she beholds the audience giving its applause to a young and vivacious Musetta (Soprano Conchita Supervia). Afterward Theodore visits .her, tells her he is free. But when Irela suspects he pities her, she brusquely dismisses...