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...something of a puzzle. As a summer fill-in for Veteran Jack Benny, Paar has set no new records. His Hooperating, beginning with a mild 10.2 on June 1, drooped steadily to an ominous 4.8 in late summer. Radio people had all but dismissed him as a heady, handsome prima donna whose humor was too specialized and too sophisticated...
...Pennsylvania minister, she launched her career at 14 by singing Ruth in a church production of Ruth and Naomi (when the lad assigned the basso-profundo role of Boaz failed to show up, Louise sang that role, too). Dependable and even-tempered in an atmosphere that earned "prima donna" its popular meaning, Presbyterian-born Mrs. Homer once balked at a role: in Faust the Met wanted her to wear tights...
...Congress Hotel, Prima Donna Mafalda Favero of Milan's famed La Scala washed shirts for Baritone Danilo Checchi, who was stopping at another hotel. Favero pawned some of her jewelry, cried: "The first time I go to the jewelers to sell and not to buy. Maybe I get a mask and gun and go out Chicago style to get some money. This experience never was in the program...
...Metropolitan Opera stars like Helen Traubel and Lily Pons, who make short concert tours between operatic appearances, are considered prima donnas rather than recitalists...
...have never been in any party more than 15 minutes. . . . We [liberals] are just a bunch of political prima donnas. . . . If everything doesn't go just our way, we bolt. . . . Let's not fool ourselves - we have more than 57 varieties." Despite their differences, the country's "liberals," LaGuardia thought, could pull together for "a proper economic adjustment in our country to permit people to live properly and decently." All 57 varieties of his listeners agreed. Frank King-don's National Citizens P.A.C. voted to dissolve*; so did Sculptor Jo Davidson's I.C.C.A.S.P...