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...Rosa Raisa, prima donna of the Chicago Civic Opera Company, and her husband, Giacomo Rimini, who sailed April 13 for their villa near Verona, Italy, are expecting the birth of a child next August...
...problem of dealing with criminals has always been concerned with speed and accuracy of judgment, and, as might be expected, the latest contribution to both these qualities comes from a foreign country, in this case Hungary, which has just acquired what is probably the most advanced method of securing prima facie evidence. For the Hungarians now use a fleet of automobiles especially equipped with every useful kind of apparatus for the discovery and apprehension of malefactors. From moving picture cameras to portable laboratories, the cars are complete, a decided contrast to the traditional derby and cigar equipment in vogue...
Married. Miss Louise Hunter, prima donna of Golden Dawn, current light opera in Manhattan; to Henry Haven Winsor Jr., of Evanston, ill., wealthy publisher of Popular Mechanics; in Manhattan...
...dull musically, waxed enthusiastic and fairly hugged itself in the thrill of a new discovery. It was a Faust rejuvenated, lifted well out of the operatic rut, a Faust as true to the spirit of Goethe's poem as to Gounod's music. There was no portly prima donna past her prime to parade as the guileless Marguerita, no heroic stage devil preposterously horned and tailed, no paunchy, heroic Faust singing to the gallery. All that had been discarded. Instead, the curtain went up on one Faust, an aged dissatisfied philosopher with a voice a little pinched...
Seclusion. No one had believed her. Prima donnas rarely retire at the peak of their career. Still, for five years, Farrar has kept out of the limelight. True there was the concert tour, and an abridged edition of Carmen that toured for a while. But operagoers never lost hope. There have been rumors that she would return to Berlin, that she had already been invited to open the new Metropolitan Opera House. She herself has spoiled the stories.? For her, opera is finished. Henceforth she works in miniature. In opera she played chiefly from her heart, from...