Word: sopranoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Warming Up. Paramount, too, has gone into the talkie business. Nobody talks in Warming Up; but the ill-timed crack of a bat against a baseball, the ear-splitting yawp of the crowd, the squawk of an offstage soprano are in the air, now and then. The story purports to tell how the Yankees won the World Series when a bush-league pitcher (Richard Dix) peered into the grandstand, saw his girl (Jean Arthur) signal that she would marry him. Then he fanned the opposition, including his dastardly rival. So full of hebetude is the film that baseball fans squirmed...
...bargee in question was one Isobel Stone, 23, lyric-soprano, who was discovered last week, with her sister, Margaret Stone (Mrs. Richard O'Neill), living rent free upon a wretched scow near the slums of Manhattan. She was not a bargee by birth; her father indeed was the late William A. Stone, onetime (1899-1903) Governor of Pennsylvania, defender of famed Harry K. Thaw. A millionaire and a man of fashion, called "Pennsylvania's greatest Governor," he had died in 1920, his large fortune dissipated in unfortunate speculations. Isobel Stone with her sister Margaret was compelled to earn...
...publicity would beat, during the white winter, causing utterances like the "divine spark" speech of Grace Moore, and bringing from far haunts rude, related delegations like the one which attended Marion Talley's debut. Marek Windheim was not in line for these honors : had he been a soprano even, he would still have been a Pole and the Poles are too remote for human interest stories. Aida Doninelli, a Central American diva, would be likewise unsatisfactory. Grace Divine and Pearl Besuner (a tobacconist's daughter), are, by a lamentable coincidence, citizens of the same city, Cincinnati. Both have...
Blonde and beautiful Maria Jeritza, Austrian soprano, golden star of the Metropolitan in the winter and the Vienna State Opera Company in the summer, last week grew angry. She had recently gone to Paris with the Vienna company and had sung there in several performances. Medals and decorations were awarded to several members of the troupe, among them the great Jeritza. Jeritza's fury, which newsgatherers for no valid reason regarded as unjustified, resulted from the fact that she had been given, not the medal of the Legion of Honor, but the insignificant one of "Officer of Public Instruction...
Married. Lucien Muratore, 50, famed tenor, recent husband of Soprano Lina Cavalieri (whom he divorced because of her admiration for Mussolini); to Marie Therese Brissaud, 23, actress, of Paris; secretly, a month ago; at Nice...