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...Chicago. It is rapidly becoming a convention for the critics of Chicago to hail every week as a great artist some singer hitherto ungraced by U.S. laurels. Two weeks ago it was Baritone Bonelli. Last week it was Luella Melms, coloratura singer, born in Appleton, Wis. She made her debut in Rigoletto. Staid people have been foolish enough to believe that a mod ern audience could not be more than politely moved by the graceful insipidities of the old score-that the days were past when a perfect trill was a signal for young men in evening clothes to unhitch...
...years pass, make excellent mothers to rich little children; others keep their figures and their friends and go on entertaining long after their footlight days are over; a few seek fame. Last week one Mary Lewis was engaged by Gatti-Casazza to sing with the Metropolitan Opera. Before her debut in January as Mimi in La Bohème she will give a concert in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan...
...butter and eggs in Christie Comedies with Colleen Moore in Los Angeles, in the days when film stars thought nothing of scraping segments of mulberry pastry from their well-shaped noses. She spent two years with the Ziegfeld organization. After seven months of study abroad, she made her debut in Vienna as Marguerite, had a London triumph in Hugh the Drover and an even more sensational one in Paris in The Merry Widow. When her Metropolitan contract was announced, every paper blared EX-FOLLIES GIRL TO STAR IN OPERA. Tradition dictates that one out of every three Follies girls must...
...Wolfe Hopper, besides being famous for his exploits in the field of matrimony, is a comedian of great repute. He made his debut on the stage almost 50 years ago, appearing in "Our Boys." He has had companies of his own, and has also appeared with such old-timers as Weber and Fields. He is perhaps best known for his acting as Edward in "The Pirates of Penzance." Ko-Ko, in the "Mikado" is another role that he has pearance has been made in "The Better "Ole" in 1918, and with Francis Wilson in "Ermine...
Garmented in the magnificent arrangement of silk and tortoise-shell she had bought to wear in her Manhattan debut as Madame Butterfly with the San Carlo Opera Company, Ganna Walska, soprano wife of Millionaire Harold F. McCormick, knelt in tears at a dress rehearsal while Tenor Franko Tafuro sang "Beautiful Creature...