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...Hamden, Conn., circus performance, Alda May Cole, 19, stood balancing three lighted candles on her head in the centre ring. Across from her, Marksman Lou Morphy lifted his gun. Crack, crack, crack, out went the candles, one, two. three. Alda May Cole bowed to the applause, walked steadily out of the tent, collapsed in the passageway. Slug No. 1 had split as it shot out of the gun. Half of it had snuffed out candle No. i. The other half plunked into Alda May Cole's face, an eighth of an inch from her right...
...radio's biggest, most persistent boosters has been Soprano Frances Alda. Three winters ago when most important singers were half-apologetic about their occasional broadcasts, Alda was proudly singing in a series of Puccini operas aired by American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. (TIME, Nov. 18. 1929). Last week Soprano Alda announced another enviable radio contract. With Meyer Davis' orchestra she will broadcast every Tuesday night this winter for the Waldorf-Astoria. And next week at a studio in the Waldorf-Astoria she will start taking pupils for opera, concert and for radio...
...thing is certain about the pupils Madame Alda sends into radio. They will not croon their way into overnight prosperity. They will not use voices so small and pinched that they are inaudible a few feet away in the studio. The control man will not be the real hero of their performances. Alda pupils must learn to sing in the canary bird's way. They must begin by developing tight abdominal muscles, soft, relaxed throats...
...gusts of breath come out with the sound, to sing into an open umbrella so that the sound of their own voices comes back to them. One old Italian teacher used to train his pupils on the syllables bee-bah-lo-nee exclusively. Methods and phobias outnumber teachers. Alda's teacher, the late great Mathilde Marchesi, who also taught Melba and Calve, would never permit a pupil of hers to have her hair washed...
...longer considered disgraceful for famed "singers to swell their incomes by singing in cinemansions. Contralto Margaret Matzenauer sang last week at Roxy's where Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink, another Metropolitan Opera alumna, has sung several times. Soprano Frances Alda, a mound of red velvet and jewels, last week did a turn at the Palace, Manhattan vaudeville house...