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...themselves croupy while tears ran down many a wrinkled old cheek. But why was this great singer retiring at the peak of her career? "Because I like the sun best when it is high." Last week in Manhattan Death came to Marcella Sembrich who, save for Schumann Heink and Calvé, was the last survivor of an age which produced Patti, Lilli Lehmann, Melba, Nordica, Nilsson and the two de Reszkes...
Headliner last week at the Keith Vaudeville Palace, Manhattan, was Emma Calvé, billed "The Beloved Diva" and "The World's Greatest Carmen," serving on the same bill with such as Stan Kavanagh (Austrian juggler), Naughton & Gold (funny ones), B. A. Rolfe (Mighty Melodist of the Trumpet), Frank Evers & Greta (tightrope dancers...
...Madame Calvé will now tour on the Keith circuit...
...Cleveland to Rochester went troupers of the Metropolitan Opera Company last week, gave there their two last performances of the season-Rigoletto with Marion Talley, and Tosca with Florence Easton. At their hotel Miss Talley and her practical mother greeted eager reporters with a cable just received from Emma Calvé, retired prima donna who, according to European reports, had presumed to censure the system that would permit such a premature Metropolitan debut as Miss Talley's and the publicity that attended it. Said the cable...
...with some $2,000,000 of the profits from Rose-Marie. In the lobby will stand a life-size figure of the elder Hammerstein. At the official opening, probably in September, 1927, will appear many of the singers who began or advanced their professional careers under his banner-Melba, Calvé, Tetrazzini, Mary Garden, John McCormack...