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...been foolish enough to believe that a mod ern audience could not be more than politely moved by the graceful insipidities of the old score-that the days were past when a perfect trill was a signal for young men in evening clothes to unhitch the horses of a prima donna's carriage and pull her home themselves. The Chicago enthusiasts stopped short of this. But they held up the performance after she had sung the "Caro Nome," and gave Luella Melius ten curtain calls at the end of the act. Old Critic Glenn Dillard Gunn declared that...
...Toti Dal Monte, "world's smallest prima donna," Feoder Chaliapin, Mme. Johanna Gadski, arrived in Manhattan on the Berengaria...
...GOOSE WOMAN-Rex Beach- Harper ($2.00). A goose-raising, gin-drinking onetime prima donna nearly earns her son a hanging by inventing evidence in a murder case just to see her name in the newspapers again...
Divorced. Miss Mary Ellis, until recently prima donna of Rose-Marie, from her second husband, Edwin H. Knopf, play producer, brother of Publisher Alfred A. Knopf; in Manhattan. Her first husband was one Louis Bernheimer. A month ago she suddenly left the cast of Rose-Marie. It was reported that she had strained her voice...
...Broadway. The Follies, with Will Rogers, Eddie Cantor, Ann Pennington, Gallagher and Shean, and even Mr. Ziegfeld adequately included, is the subject. It seems that the low-comedy actress had never had a lover. It was the trap drummer that finally succumbed. They were very happy until the luxurious prima donna leered her way into their lives. Then a strange ending, so swift and so sincere as to be almost out of place...