Word: prima
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Married. Eleanor Steele, operatic soprano, prima donna last year of Brooklyn's Little Theatre Opera Company, daughter of Morgan Partner Charles Steele, sister of the wife of retired Poloist Devereux Milburn of Westbury, L. I.; and Hall Clovis, operatic tenor, singer of leading roles for two years with Little Theatre opera; in Chicago. Mrs. Clovis has had two previous husbands: Count Jean de la Greze of Paris (divorced), Dr. Louis Debonnesset of Paris (died...
High Society Blues (Fox). How little Janet Gaynor's success in character studies of wistfully romantic young girls depended on physical attractiveness is illustrated by this unsuccessful musicomedy. Her coy little voice and frail attempts to assume the spontaneity and vitality proper to a prima donna never give the story what it needs. It is all about a rich young girl who was supposed to marry a count she did not love and who finally eloped with Charles Farrell in a white Ford. Silliest line (by Farrell, after a tedious love-scene spent entirely in singing the theme-song...
Stokowski has permitted himself to develop prima donna tendencies but the public at large continues to encourage them -perhaps because, like a shrewd prima donna, he has stayed picturesque: preserved his figure by exercise and a strict raw-vegetable diet, his fluffy golden hair by washing it every day himself. He is (with Boston's Koussevitzky a close second) the best-groomed conductor in the U. S., although it has often pleased him to shock fastidious gatherings by appearing in golf clothes. In public places it takes him an impressive length of time to remove his coat and arrange...
...Young told his fellow citizens that Politics is like a temperamental prima donna, rattle-brained and greedy, who dazzles and hoodwinks whole nations until the show is nearly bankrupt, then with tears and tantrums calls on humble Economics to save it, and when the show is saved begins to squander and to dazzle once more...