Word: jeritza
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senator So & So" very short-sighted of a tire producer to christen his inner tubes for The Battleship Maine.* What adjective, then, can be applied to Louis and Isadore Cohen of New York City, who without permission bestowed upon a squat, ugly, evil-smelling cigar** the name of Maria Jeritza, prima donna...
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...Worcester, Mass., last week, Maria Jeritza gave a concert. It was a success. The audience liked her. She liked the audience. Vigorous, exuberant, she hurried off the stage, prepared to catch a train. Exuberantly she bounced up, exuberantly she bounced down, turned her ankle, sprained it badly...
...swept across the stage of the Brooklyn Academy of Music. The big curtain was down tight; another makeshift drop shut off the people seated on the stage, from the strip of stage whereon the singer was to stand. At the appointed hour, the great curtain lifted, slowly, solemnly, disclosed Jeritza, there, ready, her weight on one foot in true Bernhardtian manner. Her husband, big Baron von Popper, had carried her on, propped her against the piano, left her there to give pleasure to a great audience that applauded her singing, her pluck...
...whole he acquitted himself admirably, went in one afternoon to the head of the Metropolitan's class of availables for German tenor roles. An audience whose faith in German tenors has been badly shaken, took new hope, applauded him gratefully; saved its noisiest, most unrestrained approval for Maria Jeritza making as Elisabeth her last operatic appearance of the season...