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...Dunne "takes everything in her stride". The part of Sir Julian Kent is played by Conway Tearle with refined restraint; there was nothing else he could do with it. Mary Boland enlivens the highly improblematic plot by a too realistic portrayal of the Colonial dowager aspiring to be a prima donna and pictorial shots of sheep grazing and the Stingaree galloping into the night add to the effect. The remainder of the picture concerns itself with the dramatic escapades of Australia's gentlemanly Jesse James, the vocal triumphs of Miss Dunne, and the foundation of the British Empire...
...point out." said he, "that in permitting the resolution to be introduced I am not agreeing that there has been a breach of Privilege, but merely ruling that the Right Honorable Member from Epping in Essex has made out a prima facie case to that effect...
...Prima donna of chemistry, hydrogen is present in 300,000 known compounds. Deuterium promised to be a twin prima donna capable of producing 300,000 new compounds. Commonest hydrogen compound is hydrogen oxide-water. First and most obvious heavy hydrogen compound is deuterium oxide-heavy water. In fact this looks like ordinary water and is only 10 percent heavier...
...first years in opera her fa ther never let Lotte Lehmann forget that school-teaching would have been easier and safer. She studied in Berlin, got a contract with the Hamburg Opera where for many months she did bit parts, studying the big roles by herself. One day the prima donna who was to sing in Lohengrin suddenly fell ill and Lotte Lehmann took her place. In her fright she forgot all the hidebound traditions, the routine gestures. But she was so young and unaffected, her voice so richly expressive, that the Hamburgers wanted to hear her in other...
...paused and descended more slowly than he had risen, do ten entrechats so casually that they never interfered with his dramatic impersonation.* When he graduated from the Imperial School, he was hurried into the Mariinsky Theatre where Anna Pavlova, who never ceased being jealous of him, was prima ballerina. Diaghilev, son of a wealthy Russian general and distillery owner, had made a name for himself by assembling Russian painters, exhibiting their work expensively in St. Petersburg and Paris. He took the Russian Opera and Chaliapin to Paris before he took the Ballet. But the dancers established his reputation with...