Word: emma
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From 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...
Europeans, getting word of the furor, were inclined to be scornful of "American hysteria." Emma Calve, living now in retirement on the Riviera, took it more personally. For had not she and her sisters in singing had years of preparation before they were ready for the Metropolitan? She was indignant, protested last week against the system which would permit of such a premature Metropolitan debut. Said she: "No singer should be subjected to such a test without at least ten years' preparatory work on other stages. . . . Too much publicity at an early age and not enough hard work...
...christening was done by two local young women, Miss Genevieve Parker, champion dog team driver, and Mrs. Emma Delavergne, wife of the Mayor. A beribboned bottle was broken against the nose of each machine, but the bottle did not contain champagne, which is a lost word in Alaska. The odor that came from the ruck of glass and red, white and blue silk was the odor of aviation gasoline, raw and pungent...
Here is her trouble when Brand and Emma reach her in response to her summons: Elliott is days late in returning. Something has surely happened, probably to the boy. Wracked already, she is bitter with hate for Elliott when he does appear, dry-mouthed, caked with dust, to say he has lost Jackie in the trackless, beast-run hunting veld, lost him completely. There is a nightmare of searching. Mary's baby is born, prematurely but alive, in a desert railway shed. The boy is not found. Back on the farm, Mary's hatred for Elliott shades into insane belief...
Brand van Aardt had fallen back on the plain little school mistress, Emma, telling her honestly she was second choice. She had accepted honestly, wanting him even that way. They had grown together, honest friends, not exalted but not unhappy. He had amassed wealth. When Mary Glenn came home with her ineffectual husband and her fraying tissue of appearances, Brand had unobtrusively put them on the farm. It was a livelihood for Elliott Glenn, who was supinely grateful. For Mary it was a refuge, but also a torment. Her snobbery remained swollen while her pretences shriveled and her beauty went...