Word: carmens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which she has never been matched; in Romeo et Juliette, when she sang the chamber scene in bed, on her back; in Tosca, after she had lighted the candle coming from back stage, a burning white line from the tip of the flame to her beaded train; in Carmen and Zaza, less artistic, perhaps, just as exciting; in Die Königskinder, a radiant creature in rags with long golden hair and a golden crown with jagged peaks such as children cut from cardboard, and real live geese (her own innovation) flocking around...
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...
...Palace entertained strangers at her 14 performances: some who remembered the Cavalleria at the Metropolitan Opera 34 years ago when Calve made her debut; some who had seen her first Carmen, a slim, sensual hoyden who attracted 15 sold-out houses in a single season. No words were too dear for her then. The late Henry Theophilus Finck of the New York Evening Post has said: "She had everything in her favor that a fairy could possibly bestow on an operatic artist: a beautiful and amazingly expressive face; a voluptuous figure, with a rare grace of movement; a voice which...
...Lesson of the Fan," for "Swanee River" and "The Spirit of the Air," words and music by herself, dedicated to Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh. "L'amour est une oiseau rebelle. . . ." The customers at the Palace sat alert for the "Habanera" of the World's Greatest Carmen, but the high comb would not stay in the thin bobbed hair, and the flaming shawl was strangely dull. True there was a hint of the old gestures, the old fire, but the Palace audience could not remember, saved their applause for Naughton & Gold, funny indeed, for the triple-tonguing of Trumpeter...
...poor people," to be Mayor of Indianapolis. The next year he became nationally known by hawking potatoes, geese, onions, eggs, tomatoes and cheeses from the steps of his city hall in an effort to break a commission merchants' trust. A street car strike ended his term prematurely, the carmen refusing to promise they would strike no more while he was mayor. He had threatened to resign if they failed to promise and he made the threat good...