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...time, Londoners were far more interested in the caperings of Handel's two leading prima donnas, Faustina and Cuzzoni, than in his music. Almost nightly at the opera house, heads were bashed, windows smashed. The cheers & jeers drowned out Handel's arias, while the two "fighting cats" scratched at each other's eyes and pulled at each other's hair...
Tilden v. the Women. Big Bill is cattiest about the game's two greatest women-Suzanne Lenglen and Helen Wills. On Lenglen: "Her costume struck me as a cross between a prima donna's and that of a street walker." On Wills: "I regard her as the coldest, most self-centered, most ruthless champion ever known to tennis...
...there any chance of her "doing a Princess Elizabeth?" one reporter asked coyly. "No indication whatever," replied Margaret firmly, adding thoughtfully that she had met several nice young men on the trip. What about the President's recent remark that he preferred grandchildren to a prima donna in the family? Margaret laughed. "I hadn't heard that one," she admitted, "but it sounds just like father...
...order in Germany was to prevent Germany from going communistic. I am afraid that our foolish and utterly stupid policy in regard to Germany will certainly cause them to join the Russians and thereby insure a communistic state throughout Western Europe." He believed that "all very successful commanders are prima donnas, and must be so treated. Some officers require urging, others require suggestions, very few have to be restrained...
...Spence has a voice of both sweetness and power.... Voices of [Suzy Morris'] caliber are said to be almost nonexistent in this country, but here was a singer who produced tones of opulence, power, wide range. . . . Assuming she has some way to get experience, she could be a prima donna worthy of any opera house...