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...Prima Donna Gladys Baxter has a bounteous voice and sings a czardas with considerable fire. In the last act the Shuberts, unable to suppress their vaudeville, interpolate a comedian named Solly Ward who tells time by the number of cats in the backyard and, observing six, declares it to be "five after one." But these gaucheries and the stiffness of many of the cast may be forgotten if you submit yourself to the best musical score on Broadway, the creation of a little Austrian kapellmeister whose farewell concert in London (1849) was followed by a triumphal exodus on a fleet...
...unsatisfactory records are not necessarily placed on probation, since each case is treated individually. If, however, the grades of a student in good standing who has extended a holiday should become unsatisfactory at any time during the year, the Administrative Board would regard the extension of a holiday as prima facie evidence of neglect of work, and probation would naturally follow. To take another example, holiday cuts would count against a student if his absences from classes at other times during the year should become excessive in number...
Fritzi Scheff, prima donna, prospered but Husband von Bardeleben went into bankruptcy with his postcard & valentine business. Soon after came a divorce and Novelist John Fox Jr. (Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, Trail of the Lonesome Pine) succeeded him, was in turn succeeded by her manager, George Anderson, who was divorced in 1920. Since then Fritzi Scheff's fortunes have varied too. Good comic operas have been scarce since the days of Victor Herbert. Tales of temperament have frightened some managers. She has been forced to occasional vaudeville towns, to doing Modiste over the radio, taking a turn...
...Fate of the Baron is the tale of an aristocratic gentleman whose life's errand is to become the lover of a prima donna and whose ecstacy at her final acceptance is quickly changed to gentlemanly chagrin when she leaves him after their first night. Denouement: the Baron hears that his night of love was the result of a curse, muttered by the prima donna's previous lover on his deathbed. Upon hearing this the Baron can do nothing but die of shock, which he promptly does. Author Schnitzler's characters die easily, often...
Mlle. Maya Keila, prima ballerina in Christopher Morley's revival "The Black Crook," is not much interested in Harvard students or in college men in general. Or such was the statement she made in an interview which took place during the matinee last Saturday behind the scenes in the Shubert Apollo Theatre...