Word: sopranoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ponselle Company. From Old Orchard, Me., takeoff place for trans-Atlantic flights, came report of an All-Star Grand Opera to be organized by Carmela Ponselle, onetime Metropolitan contralto, sister of Soprano Rosa Ponselle. Miss Ponselle announced an opening at Manhattan's Metropolitan in the fall; a tour of the East, South, Midwest...
...Harriman. She declared $1,500 of Paris finery. The inspectors were not satisfied, seized $100,000 worth of jewelry and eleven pieces of baggage. When the France was two days at sea, Mrs. Rumsey had given a jeweled purse to her friend and fellow passenger, Lucrezia Bori, Metropolitan Opera soprano. Miss Bori is a Spanish citizen. Her personal belongings were not dutiable. Nevertheless, the inspectors seized her new purse and obliged Mrs. Rumsey to pay duty on that, too. The Rumsey jewelry was proved to have been purchased in this country, and was returned, though Mrs. Rumsey...
Less atonal in its harmonies but in spirit akin to Composer Ernst Krenek's much- discussed Jonny Spielt Auf, the bathroom opera's subject matter is a farcical treatment of divorce. The soprano's opening song becomes a duet when a man, employed by her husband to provide divorce grounds, enters the room. The duet becomes a trio when another feminine guest of the hotel comes in to demand the use of the bath. Finally the noise grows so loud that all the employes stream in. The finale is exciting, uproarious...
Born. To Signor Tito Schipa, tenor, and Signora Schipa; a daughter. Tenor Schipa, singing in Florence, Italy, received the following cable from his wife in Beverly Hills. Cal.: "Not Tito Jr., tenor, but Giuliana, coloratura soprano, arrived last night. All well...
...trial denouement the little boy accused of murdering his bad stepmother is cleared by a device proving that she was killed by her lover. Typical shot: Mickey McBan, baby soprano, singing "My Daddy's the Best Daddy...