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...fashioned leftish principles. He was candid enough to say of other New Deal liberals in general: "There personally was more comfort in going along with a bunch of reactionaries who knew where they were and where they were going than in trying to get along with a bunch of prima donnas...
...defense of McCarthyism, the material presented in McCarthy and his Enemies might be described by a phrase which the authors are fond of using. On the surface, the facts seem to make a "good prima facie case." The evidence which they present, however, is limited mostly to McCarthy's earlier bouts with the Tydings Committee. An examination of other investigations and charges could have placed the Senator's record in more accurate perspective...
Died. Fritzi Scheff, 72, Vienna-born prima donna and the toast of Broadway at the turn of the century; in Manhattan. Leaving the Metropolitan Opera, Soprano Scheff became a popular star overnight singing Kiss Me Again in Broadway's opening of Victor Herbert's Mile. Modiste (1905), earned up to $4,000 a week in such musical plays as The Two Roses, Fatinitza and Boccaccio...
...phrase, like Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark. Yet, for so serving his country, for giving his well informed and experienced opinion on a vital matter of state, he is now heavily penalized. He took an easily misrepresented position and that was enough, apparently, to make out a prima facie case of disloyalty against...
...sopranos; the name role has been tackled by the world's top prima donnas from Giuditta Pasta (who created it) to Jenny Lind, Lilli Lehmann and Rosa Ponselle. Norma is on stage-and singing-for almost two hours, or long enough to satisfy the heartiest spotlight appetite. She ranges the emotional gamut from mother love to infanticide. Best of all, the part is almost impossible to sing, and few of today's voices can both spin the intricate tracery of its high coloratura and belt out the chesty low tones...