Word: etelka
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fritz Reiner is the able conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony. His wife, Berta Gardini-Gerster Reiner, is a vocal teacher, sometimes of Cincinnati, this season of Manhattan. And she is always the daughter of Etelka Gerster, famed Hungarian soprano. Last week in Manhattan, in memory of her mother who died in 1920, Madame Reiner gave a reception, presented her pupils in a special program...
...were looking for the greatly sought after "human touch," you would find it not so much in Reiner as in his pleasant wife. Mrs. Reiner is the daughter of the Hungarian soprano, Etelka Gerster. Old timers will remember Etelka Gerster as a young soprano who sang in America for a season, and, with a measureless beauty of voice, appeared to be on the road to the greatest glory. Then?suddenly?she lost her voice and was not heard of again. It appears that she lost her voice during the illness that followed the birth of her daughter, the present...
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