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...cheese all day and quaffing Sheffield milk. The quaffing and munching at directors' meetings are only a stunt. Mr. McInnerney's office is a luxurious, paneled room containing much Florentine leather. Next to his interest in music (one of Mrs. McInnerney's closest friends is Soprano Queena Mario), Mr. McInnerney's favorite indulgence is the collection of Florentine furniture. His Fifth Avenue apartment and his Winnetka, Ill., summer home are filled with Florentine pieces gathered on his annual trips with Mrs. McInnerney to Montecatini. Last week President McInnerney had much business before him. National Juice Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Milky Way | 5/25/1931 | See Source »

Boheme with winsome Queena Mario and pompous little Gigli, Salome, Traviata, Cavalleria, Hansel und Gretel, Manon, Tannhduser, Mignon, Girl of the Golden West, Lucia ? the Los Angeles repertoire and reactions were much the same as in San Francisco. Boxofficially Soprano Maria Jeritza was greatest at traction. Gigli got the galleries. Critics were most eager to hear Clare Clairbert, new Belgian coloratura...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Curtain Call | 10/6/1930 | See Source »

...pets. Clock, chairs, teapot came to life. Cat, squirrel, frog and bat took on human ways. It was all delightfully fragile and the more music-wise waxed enthusiastic over the smart orchestration which suggested perfectly so detailed a bit as the Boy stupidly mulling over his mathematics. Soprano Queena Mario, all agreed, made an irresistibly piquant Boy. But the children liked her better when she came out as Gretel, with great holes in her stockings, with pigtails stiff as twigs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Plume | 9/29/1930 | See Source »

Frances Alda Queena Mario...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Metropolitan Roster | 7/23/1928 | See Source »

...arrived in Chicago, last week, after traveling 4,000 miles to sing in the premiere, Mme. Rethberg suffered an unpredictable failure of voice. Since there was no understudy for her role in Verdi's Masked Ball, it was necessary to revise the entire program for the first night. Queena Mario and Giovanni Martinelli sang the leads in Pagliacci which was followed by Cavalleria Rusticana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Zoo Opera | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

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