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Sári Petráss
Sári Petráss (5 November 1888 – 9 September 1930) was a Hungarian operetta actress and singer. In the 1910s and 1920s, she played leading soprano parts in Budapest, Vienna, London and on Broadway. According to Richard Traubner, Sári Petráss and Sári Fedák remain "the two best-remembered Hungarian female operetta stars of all time."
Biography.
Petráss was born in Verőce, Hungary in 1888 and was a niece to Bertha von Suttner, countess Kinsky.
Petráss debuted in as a
A few days later Alexander Woollcott objected: "while Sári Petráss is an ingratiating and pretty vivacious prima donna, she can scarcely take first rank as a singer." In March 1917 Petráss married Felix Augustus Eugene Sommerhoff, a broker from Cedarhurst, New York. She soon withdrew from "Miss Springtime" and toured the United States with "The Beautiful Unknown".
In 1921, Petráss reprised her role in "The Gipsy Princess" at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London.
Petráss and a friend, Lady