A NEW EDICT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20722, 15 November 1930, Page 6 (Supplement)

A NEW EDICT.

SLIM SINGERS. I am interested in the edict that, has gone forth from the director of the Storkholm Opera. House that prima donnas must reduce their weight—principally because there is but. little necessity for the prima donnas of to-day to do so, writes a Londoner.

I could, of course, name some heavyweights. But they are in a small minority, for it is a welcome fact that eminent operatic singers are now for the most part quite slim, and frequently beautiful.

One of the most beautiful women of the century, Lina Cavalieri, is an operatic singer—and slim. Lovely, too, is Jeritza. Elisabeth Schumann, Fanny Heldy, Maggie Teyte, Gota Ljungberg, Eva Turner, Eide Norena, Lipkowska, and Pampanini are only some of many famous singers who do not carry an ounce of superfluous fl«h.