Word: prima
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sing no more. Encouraged by the mother who had chaperoned .her career, the sister Florence who had taught her to sing, the telegraph-operating father who had flashed the first news of daughter's triumph from the wings, Marion Talley announced that she was through with being a prima donna. Her statement was as simple and matter of fact as herself: "My retirement is permanent. I am going West with my family. The farm might be in California and it might be in Colorado but I'm going to look first in the Middle West. I am going...
Back on the farm the former grand opera star will never sing again even for her own pleasure or to call the cows home to be milked as the evening sun goes down behind the Kansas hills. Perhaps the twenty-two year old prima donna never enjoyed singing anyhow. It may well have been the lure of the splendor of grand opera costumes that brought the soprano to New York in 1926 at the head of an army of enthusiastic supporters. Suspicions of this nature are strengthened when one recalls that in the statement to the press there...
...Cornish growers of broccoli, succulent vegetable, adopted last week a "National Mark" for their produce bearing a map of England exactly like that on the Daily Mail egg placards. For export to France the broccoli is labeled Choux-Fleurs, Premiére Qualitó, while Germans will receive Blumenkohl, Prima Qualit...
Seven men and music make the story of Helma Seymour, a pretentious life cycle of a U. S. prima donna which begins in a mid-western town and revolves ironically to a prosperous and almost respectable middle...
...scorned her, until it was a half-crazed creature, without ambition, almost without voice, whom Dubosc mercifully took to Paris. There she met Raymond who was young. They lived together, went to Tours together where Dubosc had arranged for Helma's apprenticeship. In Tours she was soon the prima donna, successful because she was healthy, worked hard, sang splendidly. John O'Brien, a visiting tenor, heard her, got her an engagement in Paris. Then came the problem of Raymond. A young singer at the Paris Opera should have no handicaps. Raymond, fortunately, understood this. Helma's next...