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Pennsylvania-born Blanche was set to be an office worker-until, at a ship's concert on a trip to Sweden with her Swedish-born parents, she found her career. To a fellow passenger, Marian Anderson's onetime accompanist Kosti Vehanen, her untrained mezzo-soprano sounded like unmistakable opera material. Vehanen shouted his enthusiastic opinion to anyone who would listen. When Blanche got home, her boss's parents agreed to finance her training...
...Accompanist. In Springfield, Ill., Sheriff Walter Hagler listened carefully, then broke up a prisoners' quartet and took away the discordant saw with which one of the singers was cutting through the bars...
...Castellón after his father. But a childhood passion for lima beans earned him the nickname Sabicas, which, in the dialect of Pamplona gypsies, means "the little one who likes beans." Famed for his unusual ability to play the guitar with one hand, Sabicas soon became the favorite accompanist of flamenco singers and dancers all over Spain. Nowadays, on evenings when he is not working, easy-going Sabicas-who looks like a Spanish Tom Dewey-is usually to be found in a 52nd Street Spanish restaurant named El Flamenco, strumming his guitar for love at the merest hint...
...France Forever will be given at Jordan Hall tomorrow evening at 8:30 o'clock. The program will feature Robert Collins, baritone; Jean Bodetti, Cellist, Felix Fox, pianist; Georges Mager, trumpet; Joseph Lukatski, English horn; Jean Devergie, oboe; and 25 members of the Boston Symphony with Leo Litwin, accompanist, and Louis Speyer conducting...
...Valentino era. Cinemactress "Negri plays a Wagnerian diva (the soprano voice is dubbed in) married to Adolphe Menjou. Clothed in sumptuous black & white, Pola is as vivacious and comely in comedy as she was as a glamor girl. Slapstick permits her to be as violent as ever. When her accompanist in the picture accuses her of "bellowing like a cow," the temperamental tigress fetches him a slap in the puss. When somebody urges her not to become violent over Cinemactor Menjou's alleged infidelities, she cries: "Violent! I'll show you how to be violent"-and launches into...