Word: polenta
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interesting to hear stories of her youth--how one day she had to steal some "polenta" to appease her hunger when playing Juliet how she played to an empty house on her first appearance at Vienna in "La Dame aux Camelias" and to an over-flowing audience the next night how she always scorned jewels and adornment, and how she made such expressive use of her hands that legend relates she would sometimes "lay them to rest within a velvet box" after a performance. Those who see her in either of her two Boston performances will find a more tangible...