Word: diva
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...audience could not go quite so far as to drape over Elizabeth Bergner's slim shoulders the accumulated mantles of Terry, Duse & Bernhardt was no reflection on her very considerable talents. It does not take much of a play to provide a proper vehicle for an authentic diva. The less dramaturgy there is to distract attention from the star, many a leading lady feels, the better. But Playwright Kennedy's tale about the musical Sangers, a faintly connected sequel to her Constant Nymph, is practically no play at all. Every vital situation appears to have been almost deliberately...
...Dunster bucks and their eminently presentable companions of the gentler sex settled back to enjoy the antics of Gale Noyes and his operatic troupe. The curtain raiser was a modern opera concerned entirely with the touching theme of a house on fire: Walter Birge '35 intoned magnificently as the diva reaching new highs of operatic tonsil abuse. Donald Gleason '35 joined in most capably as Miss Birge's singing spouse and Larry Nichols '35 cut an imposing figure as the rescuing fireman. The main aria "I Smell Smoke" was enthusiastically received...
...past eight years antiFascists have remarked that the birth of the Corporative State seems to take place in Italy. with appropriate rejoicing, about as often as a diva's farewell. Was this really it at last...
...Recitative and Aria of Lia," from L'Enfant Prodigitc, that Mr. Stock's hitherto intact baton went sailing in three pieces from his passionate grasp into the ranks of the scraping violinists, one fragment just barely missing a plunge down the low back of the diva's gown. Mr. Stock, unaccountably prepared for the emergency, picked up another stick from his desk and went on restrainedly as ever...
...rogue who gallops about on a white charger, he kidnaps a composer (Conway Tearle), later an orphan named Hilda Bouverie (Irene Dunne) who falls in love with him. The bandit arranges for the composer to hear the girl sing, goes to jail while she prepares to become a great diva. Stately Miss Dunne succeeds as convincingly as do most cinematic songsters, but inevitably she is drawn back to Australia...