Word: mimi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Grace Moore, 45, bubbling, blonde hillbilly girl (selfstyled) who became one of the Metropolitan Opera's first-string divas (Mimi, Tosca), took Hollywood in stride (One Night of Love), toured operatic and concert stages the world over; in a plane crash; in Copenhagen (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Manhattan, lean, bemonocled Visitor Sax Rohmer, who had been chiefly concerned with Fu Manchu for the past 30 years, listened with professional interest to Soprano Mimi Benzell. She would sing in a new operetta, Chinese Nightingale-new book & lyrics by Sax Rohmer. The show would open in London, but Briton
Pert, red-haired little Bidu Sayao was born into one of Rio's wealthiest families 39 years ago. She made her debut at Manhattan's Metropolitan in 1937, became famed for her slight-voiced but lyrically graceful Manon, Mimi (in La Bohème) and Meéisande...
Albert J. Dauray '49--Mimi Gauthier (New Rochelle...
...ovation then was one of the biggest in Maggie Teyte's 56 years-like the old days, more than 30 years ago, when she was America's frivolous "operatic sweetheart" and sang Mimi and Melisande in almost every major U.S. opera house. In 1937, when she returned to the U.S., concert and opera managers snubbed her. Last year Concert Manager Austin Wilder brought her to New York, discovered that he had the biggest box-office attraction in Town Hall's 25 years. After her first concert a critic wrote: "A Sinatra demonstration at the Paramount...