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Last week, after consulting several handbooks (including What Shall We Name the Baby?), Hogan and helpers put out the new 1955 list of hurricane names: Alice, Brenda, Connie. Diane. Edith. Flora, Gladys, Hilda, lone, Janet, Katie, Linda, Martha, Nelly, Orva, Peggy, Queena. Rosa, Stella, Trudy, Ursa, Verna, Wilma, Xenia, Yvonne and Zelda. Only holdover: Alice, used because an out-of-season hurricane arrived before its name was chosen...
Fortune Gallo, at 64, is proud of his balanced-budget opera company, proud that the San Carlo has given many U.S. singers (among them Queena Mario, Richard Bonelli, eight others who graduated to the Metropolitan) their first big opportunities. His latest cause for pride is pretty, blonde Soprano Dorothy Kirsten, who brought a fresh, appealing voice and promising style to her Mimi, Micaela and Nedda during the last fortnight. A former telephone girl from Livingston, N.J., she later did secretarial work and scrubbed floors to pay for singing lessons. Grace Moore met her in a radio studio, took...
...North Castle Township, N. Y., Patrolman William Ormond stopped Metropolitan Opera Soprano Queena Mario for speeding, driving over a white line, passing another auto on a curve. Instead of giving her a ticket, Patrolman Ormond exacted from Soprano Mario a promise. Three days later Patrolman Ormond called for Soprano Mario & accompanist in a limousine borrowed from an undertaker, drove her to Armonk under strong police escort, rapturously listened to Soprano Mario work off her fine in Strauss songs at a Policemen's Benefit...
Divorced. Mrs. Queena Marion Tillotson Pelletier (Queena Mario), 40, Metropolitan Opera Company soprano; and Wilfred Pelletier. 40, since 1916 the Metropolitan's assistant conductor; in Reno, Nev. Grounds: cruelty...
...line-up of singers is, on the whole, proud. Among the sopranos there are such experienced performers as Elisabeth Rethberg, Gertrude Kappel, Florence Easton, Lily Pons, Queena Mario, Edith Mason, Editha Fleischer, Rosa Ponselle, who will sing her first Carmen, and Lotte Lehmann who was to open the Philadelphia season in Tosca...