Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...artist and intellectual, Hilda now shuns Ciro's bar and others of the gayer spots. Except for a lingering lunch at the quiet Ambassadeurs, she sticks to her comfortable apartment in tree-graced Calle Londres. The deep blue walls assuage her spirit, set off her shining blonde hair...
Schubert: Songs from Die Schöne Müllerin (Lotte Lehmann, soprano, accompanied by Paul Ulanowsky; Columbia, 14 sides). The greatest modern lieder artist (TIME, Jan. 28) in a deeply affecting recording of the Schubert pastoral song cycle. Performance: excellent...
...opera's rigid color line by presenting Todd Duncan of Porgy and Bess fame in Carmen and I Pagliacci (TIME, Oct. 8). and followed it this year with Negro Soprano Camilla Williams as Madame Butterfly. Says 32-year-old Ellabelle Davis: "I want to prove that a Negro artist doesn't have to stay in his own backyard. In a singer, it is the color of the voice and not of the face which matters. If I'm a success in Aïda I will carry the fight to the doors...
...accompanists decided to bow it alone. But Manhattan critics had few good words for his well-mannered Beethoven and Bach, and his Los Angeles concert fee was not enough to pay the room rent. Says hawk-nosed Xavier Cugat: "I knew that the American people was polite to an artist but crazy for a personality, so I decided to become a personality...
Born. To the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Jr, 37, New York Congressman and Harlem preacher; and Hazel Scott, 26, boogie-woogie artist: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Adam Clayton Powell III. Weight...