Word: queena
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...