Word: verona
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...Juliet is vividly alive, glamourously beautiful, never anything more pretentious than a fourteen year old girl of Renaissance Verona. She reads her lines with a freshness and depth of understanding which invest the whole play with a breath-taking beauty. To one of America's most talented actresses, hail...
...News had Rosa Raisa "working in vaudeville" but she and her husband, Baritone Giacomo Rimini, who were once worth nearly $1,000,000 on paper, have been living at their villa near Verona, Italy, grateful for the farm products which grow on their acres, for an offer just made to them to sing at the Scala in Milan. The News neglected to report that Baritone Vanni-Marcoux came off handsomely by selling Insull stocks when they were still high, that careful old Basso Feodor Chaliapin ignored Insull's advice to invest $100,000 in Chicago utilities, bought Government bonds...
Cully, U. S. N. retired, and five of the seven Russian orphans whom he adopted and brought to the U. S. ten years ago, were rescued from Chesapeake Bay at midnight by the crew of the S. S. Verona which rammed and sank their yacht Kikachiaka ("Sea Gull''), a converted submarine-chaser. They were on their way from Annapolis to the Admiral's South Carolina home. The children with the Admiral were: three girls, Nina, 15, Ludmila, 20, Tonia, 13; and two boys, Feodor, 14, Nikolai, 22. All were quickly picked up except Nina who was found...
...Baritone Giacomo Rimini, she had become increasingly famed in 1928, when obstetrical forecasts in the Press were limited mainly to royalty and gossipy tabloids, by being reported "expectant" (TIME, April 30, 1928). The public had watched and waited while Soprano Raisa went with her husband to their villa at Verona, Italy. But there was no child. Summer of 1929 was spent resting at Verona, and once more there was no child. Then last January doctors ordered Soprano Raisa to go to a Chicago hotel, to rest in bed, to wait. Last week, delivered, she was happy & well, and proud...
...Riviera. Husband Mesritz first suggested that Lily study for opera. She had had some experience as a comedy ingenue, sang an incidental song once and had a small success. She set to work, within a year made her debut in Mulhouse, Alsace. Three years later she was summering in Verona with the Zenatellos, building her weight up to 105 pounds, preparing costumes and studying the roles she was engaged to sing her first year at the Metropolitan. Fortunately she was spared the Chamber of Commerce ballyhoo which spoiled Colora tura Marion Talley. After her debut Talley found herself in shoes...