Word: bispham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...legend that Nelson Eddy learned operatic arias from listening to phonograph records is only partly true. His first teacher, David Scull Bispham, schooled him for one year before he made his first stage appearance at a Philadelphia benefit show in 1922. He sang for the Savoy Opera Company, Philadelphia's Civic Opera, made his New York debut in Wozzeck in 1931. In the next two years Baritone Eddy's reputation as a concert singer steadily increased. When in 1931 he gave a concert at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Auditorium to an audience trained to appreciate manner and appearance...
...Edward Lunt who helped Woodrow Wilson revise the map of Europe; English Teacher William Reitzel (Wright) who wrote Progress of a Plough boy and Man Wants But Little. Among Haverford alumni: ''Tune Detective'' Sigmund Spaeth; Authors Christopher Morley and Logan Pearsall Smith; oldtime Basso David Bispham; Artist Maxtield Parrish; onetime Vice President Walter Morris Hart of the University of California; Commissioner of Education Jose Padin of Puerto Rico: President Thomas Sovereign Gates of the University of Pennsylvania (Haverford ex-'93); Professor Henry Joel Cadbury of Bryn Mawr and Dr. Cecil Kent Drinker of Harvard Medical...