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Atlanta. Louise Hunter, now established as the favorite prima donna of Atlanta, again forms the professional nucleus of numerous southern amateur stars...
...jostle through crowds to glimpse. But it was not for the King or for the Queen that common folk had stood, many of them, some 20 hours in line, not for them especially that Covent Garden had preened itself to a pre-War splendor. It was for Nellie Melba,* prima donna, Dame of the British Empire, who had set that night for her farewell appearance in opera...
...went troupers of the Metropolitan Opera Company last week, gave there their two last performances of the season-Rigoletto with Marion Talley, and Tosca with Florence Easton. At their hotel Miss Talley and her practical mother greeted eager reporters with a cable just received from Emma Calvé, retired prima donna who, according to European reports, had presumed to censure the system that would permit such a premature Metropolitan debut as Miss Talley's and the publicity that attended it. Said the cable...
...Rosinante played his part well. It was Dapple the Donkey's turn. With a very old and broken Don Quichotte on his back, led by the faithful Sancho, he started across the stage. Slowly and deliberately he moved until he reached the centre, aspiration of every debutant, haunt of prima donnas and tenors. It suited him, that particular spot. He stopped. Tenderly de Luca coaxed him. Bravely, as bravely as his padded fat form would let him, he pulled and coaxed and pulled, with no influence at all on the Dapple of the evening, who stood as fixed...
...Another prima donna has written her memoirs,* and if the manner in which they have been set down is not notably distinctive, they have at least the advantage of having as their subject a personage. Now 67 years old, retired, living in her native Australia, she tells the story of an eventful, glamorous career, beginning with her struggles as Mrs. Nellie Mitchell Armstrong to interest someone in her voice, her study with Marchesi, eccentric old lady who could not tolerate Nellie's one winter dress and would not let her wash her hair for fear of taking cold. There...