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...broadcast that the Yum-Yum of the Messrs. Shubert's Mikado road company, was none other than Hisa Koike ("Eternal-Life Small-Lake"), 19, descendant of proud Samurai,f whose ambition vaults not only as high as grand opera but also beyond the roles to which Japanese prima donnas have always been limited in the Occident-Madame Butterfly, Madame Chrysantheme, Lena in La Princesse Jaune. It was to be a Marguerite, a Lady Marian, a Xenia, that Hisa Koike, after studying music at Columbia University, undertook to learn western make-up methods and practiced them even while playing...
...Countess Maritza. Ever since The Student Prince, the Shuberts have been putting royalty to music with golden success. Although long awaited, the youngest in line, The Countess Maritza, disclosed nothing more sensational than a former Metropolitan prima donna of human dimensions. Indeed, shapely Yvonne D'Arle's skipping and gestures are more suggestive of the Shubert girl than the Gatti-Casazza stalwart. Had she injected less grand opera bravura into her lyric cadenzas, she might have proved even more effective...
Mary Garden, prima donna of the Chicago Civic Opera: "As I lay naked on pillows in my rowboat one morning last week, out on the Mediterranean from my villa at Antibes, France-a daily practice with me, to enjoy the sun's curative rays-i fell asleep, a wide straw hat on my head, my legs dangling overboard into the water. I awoke, startled by furtive splashing near my lonely boat. To my horror, two huge sharks were circling about, churning the water, swirling greedily. I drew in my legs. I recalled that a bather near Genoa had been...
This 'was the chunky little girl, born 27 years ago in Copenhagen, Denmark, whose father wanted her to be a great musician or a prima donna. Vocal lessons bored Amelia. At six she took to the water...
...odds, at their next encounter, will probably be the same. Odds are curious equations: they are often based on the personalities of two contenders, on differences in temperament; the difference between Mlle. Lenglen and Helen Wills is probably the difference between their thyroid glands. Suzanne Lenglen is a prima donna. Every stroke, to her, is an emergency which she must meet in some sensational manner. Helen Wills goes about the business of tennis as calmly as an etcher making a design. The Frenchwoman cannot play unless people are watching...