Word: orsano
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...celluloid collars and beehive police helmets. In surrendering her role to Natalie Hall, Mme Jeritza escaped being a Venetian noblewoman of 1934 who thinks better of spurning a commoner when, in a flashback, she impersonates her own fisher maiden ancestor in 1770 wooing and winning the Duke of Orsano. She also escaped having the following appeal addressed to her: "Ah, Marchesa, wouldn't it be divine if we both went nuts together under a Venetian moon...
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