Word: rella
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Diana type," Albertine was Jersey City bred, but attained Park Avenue because her husband was a clever window dresser. Albertine took lovers, but was circumspect. Regina had a good job as superintendent of a Washington hospital: she got the morphine habit. No one knew how or where she died. Rella was a farmer's daughter, and just the right age. When her literary uncle-by-marriage came along, she fell in love with him, but his wife got him away in time. A Manhattan actress, Ernestine took life a little too fast. When she thought she had had enough...
Meanwhile customs men hung on to $150,000 worth of diamonds set in platinum, taken from Mrs. Rella Factor on May 28. Once a Chicagoan, Mrs. Factor claimed, as the wife of a London stockbroker, to be a British subject...
...grey and venerable old director (Rella), garbed in ecclesiastical red, standing before his surpliced singers, signaled with his arms, and promptly, without a single instrumental note to give the pitch, sounded a full vocal chord of perfectly true intonation. The choir sang with strong and vivid nuances. The basses were marvelous, sometimes like a deep bell note; the tenors were rich and full; the treble voices, of boys and men, were of that clear, sexless beauty that is characteristic of male sopranos and altos. Sometimes in the piano passages the voices moved with the exquisite nuances of violins; then sounded...
...Official Status. When Vatican ceremonies need a choir, the singers are recruited from without. These Roman singers are popularly known as the Sistine* Choir. They continue the traditions of the old official choir. Their leader, Don Antonio Rella, has an official title, " Perpetual Vice-Director of the Pontifical Chapel." The choir crosses the seas without the official sanction of Pope Pius XI, but apparently with his consent...