Word: prima
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Joan the Woman," a photo-play founded on the life of "that good maid whom Englishmen burned at Rouen," was presented last night for the first time in Boston with Mme. Farrar in the title role. The prima donna herself was in a box. Her appearance was made the occasion for one of those curious scenes now inseparable from Mme. Farrar's public visits to her native city. When she entered the box, house and orchestra rose simultaneously and faced her, the conductor waved his baton like an acolyte offering incense, and the band played "My Country Tis of Thee...
...floors of a Yard dormitory, is practically denied the use of a bath between the hours of eight and nine every morning. He enters a shower whose value is mainly historical, turns on the water, and is greeted with a pitiful trickle as temperamentally hot and cold as a prima donna. Doubtless this is due to insufficient pressure in pumping the water, and not to a conspiracy to interfere with his ablutions. If cleanliness is next to godliness, it is unfair to block the Senior class in its only chance for immortality...
...title role is one of extraordinary difficulty, for it is almost as hard to find a prima donna whose character lends itself to this part as to find a young man who can act Hamlet. Mme. Gay, however, made up for what freshness, color and tone she may lack by a thoughtful and effective study of the part. Fortunately avoiding any wild excesses of passion, she differed from Farrar's interpretation by giving Carmen more restraint and treachery...
...where there is no ballet in the opera given, the "Ballet Russe" is to perform as a separate number. Tomorrow night the Pavlowa company will present the "Snow Flakes" ballet from Tschaikowsky's "Nutcracker Suite." This will follow the performance of "Madame Butterfly" with Tamaki Miura, the only Japanese prima donna in the world and the operatic sensation of the year, singing the title role...
...given in the ball-room of the Copley-Plaza Hotel, Boston, next Monday morning at 11 o'clock. The artists will be Johannes Sembach, Johnna Gadski, of the Metropolitan Opera Company, and Beatrice Harrison, the young and already famous 'cellist. Mr. Sembach, who will sing tenor, and Madame Gadski, prima donna, took part in the production of Siegfried in the Stadium last June. The program includes selections from Schuman, Schubert, Handel, and a duet from Act 1 of Wagner's "Goetterdaemmerung" by Mr. Sembach and Mme. Gadski. Elmer Wilson will be the accompanist...