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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...close to 50. Her voice is still fresh. She has been careful of her figure. On the stage she has always appeared as a youthful person, with a rare piquant charm. The patrician quality which has distinguished all her operatic heroines is Bori's own. She was born a Borgia, descendant and namesake of the Renaissance Lucrezia. In Spain it was considered a disgrace for an aristocrat to adopt a stage career. Bori changed her name, made her debut in Italy in 1908. Four years later she was at the Metropolitan singing with Caruso at an opening night...
Early last year John Avery Lomax, crack compiler of U. S. folk songs, arrived in Manhattan with a big, wild-eyed Negro known as Lead Belly (real name: Huddie Ledbetter). John Lomax' protègé was a murderer, but he was also a natural-born minstrel. From a Texas jail he won his pardon by singing a petition to onetime Governor Pat Neff. In the Louisiana swamplands his knife made more trouble. Again he was imprisoned, again got out with a song when John Lomax made a phonograph record of it, submitted it personally to the late Governor...
Doris Lee dislikes to hear her painting called "optimistic." "What I feel," she once declared, "is a sort of violence." She says she cannot help putting people in her landscapes or painting a sky red if she feels like it. Born 32 years ago to a merchant-banker in Aledo, Ill., Doris was brought up to be an "outdoorsy" gentlewoman. She went to a swank school in Lake Forest, majored in philosophy at Rockford College, became student art instructor, married a chemical engineer named Russell Werner Lee. In Paris she got pointers from Andr...
...Born, To Walter Jodok Kohler Jr., son & namesake of Wisconsin's onetime (1929-30) Governor and plumbing fixture tycoon ("Kohler of Kohler") ; and Celeste McVoy Holden Kohler: the first daughter to join the Kohler family in 50 years; in Sheboygan, Wis. Name: Celeste Nicollette...
Trader Magids, who said last week in his Seattle hotel room that he had been "born and reared in little old New York City," was actually born 46 years ago in Vilno, Russia. At 18 he sailed from Hamburg for Candle, Alaska, to join his brother Sam, who was working in a chain of trading posts owned by Herbert Greenberg. In 1915 the brothers bought posts at Kiana and Kotzebue, started a chain of their own. Brother Boris enlisted in the U. S. Army in Wartime, thereby gained U. S. citizenship. After the War the Magids abandoned their post...