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folk-lore for cooddess left on Olyes became a little shop-worn,

referred to certain

more to be said in oils Nora enjoyed it all

She had not been happy in the selection of her stage name; but she had

chosen Eleonora da Toscana because she believed there was good luck in it

Once, long before the world knew of her, she had returned home from Italy

unexpectedly "Molly, here's Nora, frohted father had

cried: who at that time had a nebulous idea that Tuscany was so filled with love of

Italy, its tongue, its history, its physical beauty, she naïvely

translated "Nora from Tuscany" into Italian, and declared that when she

went upon the stage she would be known by that na over the pseudonyreatpublic ceased to concern itself about her

name; it was her fresh beauty and her wonderful voice they craved to see

and hear Kings and queens, emperors and empresses, princes and

princesses,--what is called royalty and nobility in the newspapers freely

gave her hoirl who had once

lived in a shabby apartment in New York and run barefooted on the wet

asphalts, suhts!