Word: mimi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...proud that the San Carlo has given many U.S. singers (among them Queena Mario, Richard Bonelli, eight others who graduated to the Metropolitan) their first big opportunities. His latest cause for pride is pretty, blonde Soprano Dorothy Kirsten, who brought a fresh, appealing voice and promising style to her Mimi, Micaela and Nedda during the last fortnight. A former telephone girl from Livingston, N.J., she later did secretarial work and scrubbed floors to pay for singing lessons. Grace Moore met her in a radio studio, took her in hand, got her into the Chicago Opera Company. Says Fortune Gallo...
Died. Mary Lewis, 42, popular operatic soprano of the '20s; of gall bladder and kidney trouble; in Manhattan. She spent three years with the Ziegfeld Follies, made her debut with the Metropolitan in 1926 as Mimi in La Bohême. The next year she married Basso Michael Bohnen and quit. She divorced Bohnen, in 1931 married the late oil and shipping tycoon Robert L. Hague...
...Married. Mimi de la Grange, 22, daugher of French ex-Senator Baron Amaury de la Grange, niece of Socialite Mrs. George D. Widener; and Henry Baldwin Hyde, 26, Wall Street lawyer, son of ex-Expatriate Insurance Heir James Hazen Hyde, who after 35 years in Paris recently returned to Manhattan, scene of his feats as a dandy at the turn of the century; in Manhattan...
Supporting Manson are Earl Montgomery '43, Henry Munroe '43, John Turner, Marshall Durgin '44 and Michael Miller '44. The feminine parts will be filled by Florence Brown, Mary Farmer, Mimi Fownes, and Priscilla Freeman of Erskine School, Dardy Christie of Garland, and Ruth Oncley...