Word: petrova
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...Jamestown, N. Dak. and St. Louis, onetime member of the Chicago Opera Company; Polish Soprano Olga Didur, daughter of Basso Adamo Didur, also a Metropolitan singer; French Coloratura Lily Pons; French Tenor Georges Thill to replace Tenor Antonin Trantoul whose début last winter was undistinguished; Contralto Faina Petrova of the Moscow Grand Opera; Baritone Claudio Frigerio of Paterson, N. J., who has sung in Italian opera houses; Norwegian Basso Ivar Frithjof Andresen, famed throughout Europe for his Wagner...
...Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrova (UFA). For the last year UFA has been making an obvious attempt to inject its product with box-office values imitated from Hollywood?an attempt which has not been very successful because the Hollywood patterns selected for imitation have all been a year or two old. The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrova is a sombre melodrama about a young woman who leaves a Russian general to become the mistress of a lieutenant and who goes back to the general again to save her lover, a cheat at cards, from public disgrace. It is familiar material...
Walter P. Chrysler, motor maker, offered to build two swimming pools, some bathhouses and a long pier on an eight-acre estate, once Actress Olga Petrova's, owned by him at Great Neck, L. I., and also to throw in $15,000 cash and trade the Petrova for a two-acre public beach adjoining his own home. Great Neck refused...
What Do We Know? The ornate Olga Petrova sat down and wrote a play about spiritualism; got up and acted it. There was some perplexity in the audience as to whether she was for or against it. Finally her attitude seemed favorable. By that time it didn't matter much...
...Vchov and Mme. Petrova unfortunately recovered at dawn, and their heads were promptly crushed "with a heavy axle beam" while the mob howled "to drive away their evil spirits...