Word: rosa
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rosa Ponselle, Metropolitan Opera Star from Meriden, Conn.: "I confided privately to friends in San Francisco that I should never marry a singer...
Jeritza hasn't half the voice of Rosa Ponselle of the Metropolitan Company. Ponselle has one of the finest soprano voices in the world. She doesn't catch on. That, of course, is partly because she is an American, by birth, study, and career. It is to be doubted that any singer has ever made a debut with the fortunate circumstances under which Rosa Ponselle made hers. She had been a cabaret singer in New Haven, Conn. She was just out of vaudeville. Gatti Casazza thought he had found a second Farrar. For her first operatic appearance...
Miss Doris Halman, who has been a member of the company since its organization, will play Sait Wolleben, Case Steenkoop's sister. Among the parts she has played are Rosa Rosalis in "Pastora", Pierrot's mother in "The Mourner", plays of last year, and the mother in "Slug", the first production of this year. She was one of the authors of "The 47 Varieties", a musical parody on the Workshop's productions given last year. Miss Halman wrote three plays produced by the Workshop: "Will o' the Wisp", "Rusted Stock", and "The Play Room". She will publish shortly a book...
...Pastora" is as follows: Goy, brother to Jose, Edgar Scott '20 Jose, a bull-fighter, J. W. D. Seymour '17 Alesandro, servant to Jose, Stuart Marsten Pastora, a dancer, Miss Dorothy Sands Dona Antonia, mother of Jose and Goy, Miss Angela Morris Maid to Dona Antonia, Miss Lydia Walker Rosa, Miss Doris Halman Beggar boy, Joseph Curtin Sirena, maid to Pastora, Miss Elizabeth James Signor Louanais, E. D. Dunn Vito, C. H. Hungeford 1G. Frederico, Alan Thompson 1G. A waiter, L. N. Pearson 1G. A doctor, R. W. Brink 2G. The warner, W. N. Morse 3G. Tourists, Miss Ellen McLaughlin...
...court proceedings may be dignified and reasonable, as observers state, to the outward view. But certainly, sub rosa, all of Germany is smiling at the ease with which the defendants obtain a verdict of not guilty. Dignity and reasonableness are masks as easily assumed as is the guise of poverty. But why assume a disguise at all? Certainly no one is deceived by a trial that does not convict and a court that never condemns. There is no need in raising a hue and cry about punishment, if the punishment is never going to fall. The court and its actions...