Word: contraltos
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...Daughters of the American Revolution, who once outraged music lovers and democrats by refusing to let dusky Contralto Marian Anderson sing in their Constitution Hall, had a wartime change of heart last week. When her stubborn Manager Sol Hurok again asked for use of the Washington hall, the DARters went him one better, formally invited Miss Anderson to be soloist on one of their war-relief concerts this winter...
...discrimination. Many an organization and more individuals jumped at the chance to make a symbol of this namesake of a great American educator. First Liberty ship to bear a Negro's name, she is the first to be christened by a member of the Negro race-Marian Anderson, contralto-and the first to heed a Negro's command, the first to flout time-encrusted taboos against "checkerboarding" among licensed personnel...
More interesting than anything else in the play was the appearance in a bit part (an opera-singing cook) of Margaret Matzenauer-one of opera's fallen giants. For Contralto Matzenauer, who had been a diva in the days when Caruso and Toscanini were fellow Metropolitan headliners, Vickie might be a comedown. But it was made to order: Vickie's author, Hollywood Scripter Sid Herzig, got most of his ideas about opera singers at the age of eight when Contralto Matzenauer, newly arrived from Europe, lived in the Herzig family's Manhattan home. Vickie...
...Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink; Tenor Giovanni Martinelli; Pianist Sergei Rachmarinoff...
...Blue program series, The Ontario Show, was piped in from Toronto (Fri. 7 p.m. E.W.T.), presenting Colonel Stoopnagle, in the interests of U.S.-Canadian good will, cutting up with heavenly Madeleine Carroll and a nice Canadian contralto. Another, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.'s Sur les Boulevards, began on the Blue last Thursday (8:30 p.m. E.W.T...