Word: mme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wide the swinging doors of the Manhattan Opera House on Sept. 15, with a gala performance of Aida. The ranks of the company have been filled to overflowing with a chanting pilgrim band of Milanese, Neapolitan, Venetian, Roman artists who arrived on the steamer Conte Rosso. Among them are Mme. Clara Jacobo, Adriana Boccanera, Beatrice Melaragno, Frances Cairone, Gius- eppa La Puma, and Signori Giuseppe Radaelli, Rino Oldrati, Giuseppe Oliviero, Amadeo Taverna, Italo Picchi...
Maurice Ravel, Frenchman of devilish cleverness and satanic fertility, is busy putting the delights and horrors of Monte Carlo into operatic form. His libretto was written by Mme. Colette, who had laid its scene on the Côte d'Azur...
...baby-trafficking combine was discovered by astute French police. Mrs. Dinorah Galou, alias Comtesse de Presles, said to have been born in California, acted as a receiver of unwelcome children of unmarried mothers and erring wives, and disposed of them in some unknown way; supposedly, she sold them. Mme. Galou's activities were said to have extended over all Europe, the U. S. and South America. The police were unable to discover the whereabouts of her "adopted" children...
...clever American musicmaker, has written a score for the cinema (TIME, Aug. 4). The innovation has been duplicated in France; Darius Milhaud, one of the leaders of Paris's younger set of tonal wits, has composed the musical accompaniment to the new picture L'lnhumaine, which features Mme. Georgette Leblanc...
...Bourglarine, France, one Mme. Rapin stood with 500 others outside her house, watched her son, Sergeant Rapin, fly his airplane, do stunts, go into a nosedive, crash down into the crowd, kill nine persons, including himself...