Word: accompanists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old Veteran Martinelli finally got his chance. Playing opposite buxom Kirsten Flagstad's bosom, his white hair covered with a blond wig, Tenor Martinelli sang his part without a misplaced guttural. But between towering Soprano Flagstad and the booming orchestra led by Flagstad's private accompanist, Edwin McArthur, Martinelli's long song of love was pretty well drowned out. To cap all, just before the final curtain Soprano Flagstad took the whole spotlight, and Martinelli had to get up out of his deathbed to go and die on the other side of the stage...
Married. Ruth Etting, 42, famed torch singer, onetime cinemactress and stage star; and Myrl Alderman, 30, her onetime piano accompanist; she for the second time, he for the third; in Las Vegas, Nev. Miss Etting's first husband, Colonel Martin ("The Gimp") Snyder, is now on trial for attempting to murder Alderman...
...conductor: wiry U. S.-born Edwin McArthur, long familiar as accompanist to Kirsten Flagstad, who made his much-talked-about debut last week conducting a performance of Lohengrin in which Soprano Flagstad sang...
...launch to meet her, quickly issued clearance papers in the "stream," whisked her to a plane. Department of Commerce officials, not so polite, fined Mme Flagstad the customary $200 for traveling between U. S. ports on a foreign ship. Also fined the same amount each were her husband, her accompanist, her maid...
Irving G. Fine 1G, of Brookline, First Accompanist of the Glee Club, will conduct the singers. Edward L. Barnes '38 will direct all the undergraduates in the closing football songs...