Word: eberhardt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many Americans, a native pride has long cried out for musical interpretation of America by Americans. Last week, at the Chicago Auditorium, these people rejoiced. They heard a native two-act opera, sung in English, composed by an American, Charles Wakefield Cadman, written by an American, Nelle Richmond Eberhardt, conducted by an American, Henry G. Weber, staged by an American, Charles Moor, sung, in the tenor role, by an American, Charles Hackett...
Composer Charles Wakefield Cadman is famed for his Indian Lyrics. "At Dawning" (popularized by John McCormack and the Victor Co.), "From The Land Of The Sky Blue Waters" (introduced to concertgoers by Mme. Nordica) are best known. With Nelle Richmond Eberhardt, his collaborator ever since he entered seriously upon a musical career, he wrote an Indian opera Shanewis, the only native creation to see two seasons at the Metropolitan (1918, 1919). The Witch of Salem marks an interesting variation in subject matter. It will probably rank as his greatest work to date...
...vacant posts, charges d'affaires trained in the service were promoted: Charles C. Eberhardt of Kansas was made Minister to Nicaragua and George T. Summerlin of Louisiana was appointed Minister to Honduras...