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...happy day for Beverley when the Dispatch dispatched him on an interview with Prima Donna Nellie Melba, to get her views on a currently newsy murder. They became good friends; she introduced him to high society, and he, in return, tried to write her autobiography for her. He found it hard sledding...
...major roles in one day are about as rare as pitchers who are up to hurling both games of a doubleheader.* The Metropolitan Opera's Eleanor Steber did it once by accident. In 1945, she sang Eva in a Meistersinger matinee, then stepped into the evening performance as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni when the scheduled Elvira took sick. Last week Soprano Steber, 35, became the first star in Met memory to sing a doubleheader by design...
...began to see what she described later as a vision. "It was Donna's head . . . there was a green-and-red-striped necktie next to her. I don't know whether I was awake ... or dreaming . . . but I saw that picture. Something told me to get up ... I went into the bedroom . . . There was no tie . . .I saw some socks on the floor. I picked one of them up ... and stepped over to Donna's bed and lifted her head with my right hand ... I put [the sock] around Donna's neck. I tied it once...
...doctor was summoned to his door. Delora Mae looked up at him, white-faced and gasping: "Come with me. Come with me quick." The doctor followed her to the house. He walked into the bedroom. Then he made a quiet telephone call to the sheriff's office. Little Donna was dead...
...dreamlike calm finally broke. Delora Mae burst into tears after a jail, attendant discovered a legend she had scratched on her compact with the point of a bobby-pin, while sitting in her cell: "Delora Mae Campbell killed Donna Joyce Isbell Sat. nite...