Word: prima
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...1910s, when shapely, grey-eyed Geraldine Farrar was the most shimmering star of Manhattan's Metropolitan, operatic prima donnas were the world's most galumptious glamor girls. In 1922, before her cult had time to die, 40-year-old Soprano Farrar retired from the operatic stage to live a secluded life on a Connecticut farm. Last week she published her autobiography,* a curiously constructed narrative half of which is written in the third person as though seen through the eyes of Soprano Farrar's deceased mother...
Notably absent from the programs was the name of Colonel Wassily de Basil; notably present was the familiar trademark of Concert Manager Sol Hurok. Long-nosed Léonide Massine was still choreographer, still danced with his wonted spirit. But of the Ballet's four familiar prima ballerinas-Tatiana Riabouchinska, Irina Baronova, Alexandra Danilova and Tamara Toumanova-the first two were missing. In their places were two newly acquired slim-limbed bids for U.S. favor: diminutive, British-born Alicia Markova (Alice Marks), and Nini Theilade (pronounced Tay-lah'-de), an exotic, Javanese-born tripper of mixed Danish, Polish...
Modern Zionist dancers have long studied and imitated the traditional dances of the Yemenite Jews. Prominent among these Zionist dancers is Moscow-born Rina Nikova, former prima ballerina of Palestine's Tel Aviv Opera. While working in Palestine, Ballerina Nikova's interest in the Yemenite Jews became so absorbing that she spent months living in their villages learning their customs and dances at first hand. Upshot of her study was the formation in 1932 of a ballet troupe of seven dark-eyed, black-haired Yemenite girls. Because the girls sang as well as danced, she called her troupe...
...most high-handed thing ever handed down." Such was the comment of Garnett C. Skinner last July when a Chicago judge awarded Prima Co., one of five Chicago breweries that survived Prohibition, $568,895 damages because its business had allegedly been run into the ground (TIME, July 26). The damages were against two of Chicago's big banks, First National and Harris Trust & Savings. They had lent Prima Co. a considerable sum,'had become alarmed about their loans, so the Harris Bank suggested that Garnett C. Skinner (a onetime Hearst advertising supervisor) be put in charge...
Last week the seventh Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the decision, ruled that the banks were not responsible for losses during the Skinner regime. The court found that Prima had never complained about Manager Skinner's work; had, on the contrary, indulged in "praise which amounted at times to adulation." Meanwhile, Garnett Skinner has become general manager of the Springfield, Ill. Brewing...