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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 12, 1942 | 1/12/1942 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 28, 1941 | 4/28/1941 | See Source »

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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HDC Names Manson To Lead in Next Play | 11/2/1940 | See Source »

Born. To Gloria ("Mimi") Baker Topping, 20, Bromo-Seltzer heiress ($10,000,000), and Henry Junkins ("Bob") Topping Jr., 25, tin-plate heir ($9,000,000); their first child, a daughter: Sandra Emerson, tin-Bromo heiress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 25, 1939 | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...like a well-bred Scottie, stalked woodenly as Wotan in Die Walküre. Judges gave him several points on power, few on subtlety. Two Italian sopranos were broken in on Puccini's sway-backed war horse La Boheme: Mafalda Favero who moped placidly as the tuberculous Mimi, and Marisa Morel who flounced her skirts and shrilled nervously as Musetta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Debutantes' Thrills | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

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