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Married. Maria Jeritza, 41, Austrian opera singer, longtime prima donna of the Metropolitan Opera Company, divorced wife of Baron Leopold von Popper de Podhragy of Hungary; and Winfield Richard ("Winnie") Sheehan, 51, onetime New York World police reporter, long-time (1926-35) vice president of Fox Films in charge of production until his recent resignation (TIME,, July 29); in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...years what she affectionately called a "potato" grew in the neck of Mme Amelita Galli-Curci, forcing her to adjust her coloratura soprano to 50% less wind volume. Last week in Chicago, while the onetime prima donna trilled tones and scales to show the effects on her voice, surgeons working with a local anesthetic successfully cut away a 6½-oz. goitre...
Near Gondar meanwhile Donna Di Lauro, beauteous young wife of the local Italian Consul General, was pulled roughly off her camel by impetuous Ethiopians who detained her in the desert for two days-or so the Italian Government announced, loudly protesting this "outrage." For the rest of the week Rome rang with outrages. Ethiopians on the border of Italian Eritrea were charged with every petty villainy from "stealing an Italian shepherd's ten bulls'' to "arresting Ethiopians caught selling food to an Italian consul...
...father of the late musicomedy producer, this privately-run institution is the oldest music school in continuous existence in the U. S.. is now headed by Pianist Rudolph Ganz. This spring when an intermediary suggested to Soprano Garden that she teach there for six weeks, the onetime prima donna of the Chicago Opera willingly accepted. Tuition for the course ("Opera - Stage Deportment - Dramatic Song''): $150. From hundreds of applicants, all of whom were supposed to have had training and to show great promise. Miss Garden selected 51. Nine qualified for scholarships given by such people...
...Donna Maria Martinez has the monopolies in hardware and the army's laundry...