Word: mimi
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...Cannes, bearing Peleus Chalfont, young U. S. expatriate in search of health. Cloppety-Clop. The same little train bore the pretty Bobbie Parsons and her too ancient husband George, un- pleasantly far from his native Missouri. The toot of a motor horn. Came drunken old Henry-oh with ribalt Mimi, the Duchess. World-weary pilgrims, they journeyed back through the hills to the Temple of Hercules, there to utter loose prayers. Someone answered...
...Married. Mimi Brokaw, daughter of Irving Brokaw, Manhattan clothier; to Richard Derby Tucker, grandson of the late Dr. Richard Derby; in Manhattan. Died. Trajan Grosavescu, Rumanian tenor, after singing "Woman is Fickle" in Rigoletto; shot by his wife in a jealous rage, in Vienna. This news caused the first extra edition of Viennese newspapers to appear this year. Died. Mrs. Alice Gresham Dodd, 64, gold star mother of James Bethel Gresham, first U. S. soldier killed in the War; of pneumonia, at Evansville, Ind., in a little cottage which citizens built in memory of her son. Died. William Vanderbilt...
...sang arias from the third and fourth acts of La Bohème, the balcony scene from Romeo et Juliette to the Romeo of Charles Hackett, U. S. tenor, the final scene from Otello. She died once as Mimi, again as Desdemona. Her Britannic Majesty, high in her royal box, wiped away a tear...
...last week at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. A very special audience there for a special occasion burst into applause, prolonged it until the only performer left bowing on the stage was pretty, charming Mary Lewis, onetime Ziegfeld Follies girl, appearing for the first time at the Metropolitan as Mimi. Members of the special audience clapped their hands red. Many of them, stationed conveniently in the front of the orchestra in seats warmed these many years by long-nosed subscribers, reached underneath, pulled forth corsages of violets, hurled them at pretty Mary Lewis, hurled so many that she and genial...
Mary Lewis is tall, dark. Her eyelashes are longer than those of most opera stars, her ankles slimmer. Her face is pretty in the strong sun of midday. She has 15 parts in her repertoire, including Louise, Manon, Marguerite, Mimi, Gilda (in Rigoletto), Antonia (in the Tales of Hoffmann), and Thais...