Word: lorna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...GREENES-Lorna Rea- Harpers...
DARK STAR-Lorna Moon-Bobbs Merrill...
During a performance of Otello, President Insull of the Chicago Civic Opera was accosted by one Charles W. King, a wild-eyed fellow who shook his fist and babbled threats "for the way he'd treated Lorna Doone Jackson."*Courteously President Insull listened, took Mr. King's arm, walked with him down the foyer to the manager's office, apparently to give him better chance to air his grievances. There he turned him over to detectives, who ordered him to a psychopathic hospital where doctors found him insane...
Carmen did her turn first, did it well, won the praise of connoisseurs for the gratifying performance of Soprano Lorna Doone Jaxon, the general excellence of the ensembles. Aïda seemed depressed by the idea of her own popularity, sagged a little, but Rigoletto stepped along, vigorously, evenly. Then came Boheme, tender, lush; Cavalleria, primitive, sententious; Pagliacci, glittering, theatrical; Butterfly, effusive, incidental; and Trovatore fittingly climactic...
...each urging on its chosen cohorts in the battle of wits on the stage. The amazing feature was that everyone took the caricaturing of his own race as a great joke. Caricature is, by the way, the correct word, for only the Irish girl most charmingly played by Miss Lorna Carroll, the Jewish boy, the priest and the rabbi, are in any sense real. The other roles were pure burlesque, although Mr. White as the old Jewish father, had moments of true dramatic power...