Word: queena
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...boom times Fortune Gallo had three companies on the road. He gave debuts to Queena Mario and Richard Bonelli. And this winter Soprano Charlotte Symons, another San Carlo product, will make her Metropolitan debut. Gallo's pride is that in 25 years his troupers have missed only one performance, when a train was derailed in Texas. Gallo's wire from Manhattan: "Is scenery hurt...
...raggedy pig-tailed Gretel was Soprano Queena Mario who in California once sang Micaela to Farrar's Carmen. Farrar recalled how at that performance she had gone to the young singer's dressing-room and fairly dragged her out to bow before the curtain. Instead of a long-winded analysis of Humperdinck's music, Farrar sang the children's prayer, playing her own accompaniment. Listeners were amazed at the freshness of her voice...