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Married. Reinhold Warlick, 44 concert and opera singer, to Miss Bertha Turk-Rohn, 27, prima donna of the present season of the Voiles Opera, Vienna, daughter of Baroness Olga von Turk-Rohn, in Manhattan. Son of the late Hugo Warlick (business manager of the late Tsar's private orchestra), he was divorced: 1917 from the former Mrs. Edward Judson Ovington, widow of the late owner of the Ovington Gift Shop. Manhattan...
Nellie Melba, near her 60th year, still gathers laurels as a prima donna of opera. She was the great star of this year's operatic season in England. Her voice is said to be still astonishingly fine. The season was another essay at opera in English. The vernacular, as usual, did not work so well. The two chief artists were Melba, born British, and Edward Johnson, American, and a Metropolitan Opera star. These two sang in French and Italian, while the rest of the casts sang in English. The English critics patriotically let the grotesqueries of opera in the vernacular...
Married. Vivienne Segal, actress, prima donna of Adrienne, to Robert Ames, actor, who played the leading role of Icebound, at Manhattan...
...first of all to impress the veteran soprano with their merits and importance. This impression they have sought to make in usual operatic ways. They have engaged press agents and a claque, which usually have functioned too well. It is a long standing characteristic of Melba, as of most prima donnas, that she likes to have the lioness' share of the applause at performances and of the complimentary columns in the newspapers. When a tenor sings with her and gets more acclaim than she does or as much, she looks around for a new tenor. The ambitious fellows with...
Mary Lewis, until recently prima donna of the Follies, will take leading roles in the Monte Carlo Opera Company's productions from January to April. Miss Lewis, who is 23, sang in a choir and gave music lessons in Little Rock, Ark., her birthplace, to obtain money to take her to New York. There, in 1920, she entered the chorus of the 'Greenwich Village Follies, was given the prima donna role after three weeks, appeared in the Ziegfeld Follies the next two years...