Word: mimi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Charles Henry George Howard, Earl of Suffolk, 28, grandson of the late Chicago Merchant Levi Leiter; and Dancer Mimi Crawford (Mimi Forde Pigott), niece of Robert Chalmers, First Baron of Northiam, onetime Governor of Ceylon...
Miss Colbert performs admirably, and emulates her role of the suffering Sally Trent as a torch singer under the assumed name of Mimi Benton, with a soothing croon which is good enough for any night club. Her wispy overtones are accompanied by the sweet harmony of Abe Lyman's band, and her "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Love," has more direct bearing on the plot than theme songs in most movies we have seen recently...
...plot stumbles along slowly through Mimi Benton's career as the superb radio star broadcasting to an unprecedented following of children throughout the city. In fact, so many youngsters listen to her crooning voice each evening, that Miss Colbert has only to start a birthday club to find the whereabouts of her baby daughter whom she has not seen in several years. During the ensuing scenes, the show once more tugs at the heartstrings of the audience, and David Manners, emerging from the oblivion of China, is united with Claudette with their recently found daughter...
...fiancee (Miss Sydney Fox, as well as another medical student and his beloved. Leaving this old machinator of a Mirakle for the disarming young people, we follow Pierre and his friends in scenes of Bohemian gayety that owe practically everything to DuMaurier and Puccini's opera. Here are Mimi and Musetta, making merry in studio bedrooms and cavorting in the park on holidays. Except for a suspicion that Musetta is a child of Keokuk and not of Paris, it is all rather touching. They should really play the Musetta Waltz from "Boheme...
People everywhere have heard Nellie Melba sing "Home Sweet Home," "Comin' Thro' the Rye," Tosti's "Goodbye." Opera crowds have seen her as Mimi in La Bohème, Violetta in La Traviata, Marguerite in Faust, Gilda in Rigoletto, Lucia, Juliette. The pure and springlike quality of her voice established her as Patti's greatest successor. It lasted her well through middle age because she used it so intelligently, won her triumphs for 40 years. Melba's life was as glamorous as the prima donna of fiction. She made her American debut at the Metropolitan in 1893 five days after famed...