Word: heink
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...course I may be wrong but I think it shows a lacking of respectfulness for one of the world's greatest women when you said the following: "Among singers who will appear is old Ernestine Schumann-Heink, in her 'positive farewell to the Pacific Coast...
...Madam Heink may be elderly but it is entirely unnecessary to use the word old, and very, very disrespectful to her (Madam Heink...
Trusting that you publish an apology in your next issue of TIME to Madam Heink and that you will be more careful in the future, I remain...
...Madame Heink is 67; Madame Melba, 62; both old for singers...
Ernestine Schumann-Heink, soprano, gave her estate at Grossmont, Calif., valued at $230,000, to the disabled American Veterans of the World War. They will use it as a rest home. Said she at a dinner of disabled veterans in Minneapolis: "I make this gift . . . because you called me 'Mother'. . . . Six years ago in Minneapolis you disabled men drank a silent toast to the two sons I lost in the War-one on the American side and the other on the German. May you all go to California and rest in the most glorious spot I know...