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...sung in. What a question! Operas are given there as they are written, in French, German, Italian. But last week the Metropolitan Opera Guild collected a jury in its famed red-and-gold interior. Critic Olin Downes argued for opera in the composer's language. Ex-Prima Donna Florence Easton pleaded for translation into the audience's tongue. Metropolitan Stars John Brownlee and John Carter sang parts of Rossini's good-humored The Barber of Seville, first in Italian (hushed attention), then in English (ripples of laughter). The rather frightening vote: 460-451 in favor of opera...
Died. Elsie Moore Torlonia, 52, Brooklyn-born hardware heiress who married and divorced the late Prince Torlonia of Italy; in Manhattan. Her son, Prince Allesandro, married the Infanta Beatriz, daughter of Alfonso XIII; her younger daughter, Donna Marina, is the wife of Tennist Francis X. Shields. Mrs. Torlonia dropped her title, regained her U.S. citizenship after her divorce...
...Died. Donna Erminia Monti De Bono, wife of Marshal Emilio De Bono, Fascist Party veteran; in Rome...
Cried Margarita: "You are his donna, and I am his donna; your husband is a cuckold, and mine is another. ... If he prefers what is mine to what is yours, is it my fault...
...with a private bar and a soft "a," the fast apple who daily drives up the price of Scotch and is master of both women and wit. When this 20th Century animal tackles the 20th Century problem of getting his newly-married brother (Lyle Talbot) and his reluctant prima donna bride (Anna Sten) out of their separate rooms and into the happy marriage bed, the sophisticated fur really flies and an excellent time is had by all. Llye Talbot is solid and adequate on the boards, and Anna Sten is fresh as a breeze. Half of the lines are good...