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...your article about Miliza Korjus (TIME, Oct. 30) you made the statement that first-rank coloratura sopranos seldom appear oftener than once in a generation. You made no mention of Patrice Munsel, or does she come in the next generation...
Under the Spell. By 1937 Korjus records had reached Hollywood, where they delighted M.G.M.'s directors, who were looking for a lead for The Great Waltz. Korjus thus became a movie celebrity before the U.S. musical public had even heard of her. Then Korjus was injured in an automobile accident, spent nearly a year in a Santa Monica hospital writing a book "on the transmutation of my spiritual life." Recovered, she disappeared into Mexico, for four years let the musical world go hang. As she explained it later: "I fell in love weeth...
Divorced from her husband ("I gave heem back to his family"), Miliza Korjus now considers Hollywood her home. She owns the Spanish-style villa Rudolph Valentino built just before his death...
Even today, Miliza Korjus' vocal career is hard pressed by her zest for life. She dislikes singing in opera houses. "Averybody ees perspiring around," she explains, "the preema donnas are screaming, the stagehands are shouting. I am much uncomfortable een opera performances-besides, I do not like to haf to look over the heads of all the tenors" (she stands about 5 ft. 7 in her stocking feet...
...probably done less opera singing than any other important singer alive. As she expresses it: "I nevaire got seriously eento eet. To be a success you haf to fought for eet, and I didn't fought." After this week's recital it looked as though Korjus was destined for a U.S. operatic future, whether she fought...