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...When your audience doesn't like you, you can feel it," the prima donna of nudity explained. "But when they enjoy you, you work yourself to the point of exhaustion for them...
...Zanuck, Jack Warner, Cecil B. DeMille, who had paid $1,000 each for "lifetime" cover charges, permission to sit in an "inner circle." Chunks of scenery fell down, the show was an hour late, the revolving stages failed to turn properly, microphones went dead, a disappearing platform jerked the prima donna out of sight during one of her songs, and a waiter dropped a trayful of dishes during a dance spectacle. Hollywood pronounced the opening a success...
...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...
Less of a glamor girl, more of a conscientious craftswoman, is 1938-model Prima Donna Lotte Lehmann, who last month also published an autobiography.† Though overshadowed in the public eye by the more spectacular Kirsten Flagstad, German-born Soprano Lehmann has, for five years, been rated tops by Metropolitan opera connoisseurs...
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...