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...York restaurateur (Maxim's) famed as "the father of cafe society," credited with introducing the gigolo into U.S. night life (an early employe: Rudolph Valentino); in Southampton, L.I. He once recalled firing Singer Rosa Ponselle from Maxim's, later meeting her when she was a Metropolitan prima donna and asking innocently : "Where are you working now, Rosa...
FLORENCE KIRK, Philadelphia-born dramatic soprano, who sang Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with a few vocal wobbles, but who acted it like an attractive conflagration...
...DONNA MUHLEMAN...
Although Miss Colt is miscast as the Prima Donna who gets her man in "Tosca" but can't in real life, she undoubtedly is the most vital and outstanding personality on the Brattle stage. Because of a tendency to recite her lines in rather a sing-song fashion, she loses much of their meaning and the chance to capitalize on many potential laughs. Of the supporting cast, Richard Hart in the role of the Unknown Gentleman, gives a very satisfactory performance. As the season progresses, a great deal can be expected from Lee Nugent, Allan Tower and Kathryn Cameron...
...English producers missed out on something, too, when they presented Handel's prima donna, the notorious Mrs. Cibber (who was actually sold by her husband to another man), as a pious woman. The picture is saved by the excellent performance of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and the casting of Elizabeth Allan in a part which might have been spoiled by an opera singer...