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Notables nicely cast were Archduke Leopold of Austria as the Prussian; Ferdinand Schumann-Heink, son of Singer Schumann-Heink, as a staff surgeon, and Miss Mann, conspicuous by the paucity of her history. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, one of ten, she abandoned schooling for work at nine, sailed to South Africa, later married, and settled in Washington, D. C. She first put on costume as a pageant player, dressing as Martha Washington. At fifty she had her initial extra job; ten years later she was singled out as the ideal lead for Four Sons where the lined maternity...
...midsummer pilgrimage to bask in the glory of Richard Wagner. In the U. S. his glory spread more slowly. At first it was the matter of importing a great new musical idea, a new school of conductors, singers. There came the day then of Lehmann, of Ternina, Fremstad, Schumann-Heink, of Jean de Reszke, Anton Seidl, of Toscanini-and Wagner was indeed a Titan. There came the War, and German singers, German music were in disfavor, but Wagner grew even in exile. His operas crept back into the repertoire one by one until Lohengrin had arrived, Tannhäuser, Tristan...
...Maria Jeritza who gave last week her most gracious performance of the season as Elizabeth (Tannhäuser), whose Elsa (Lohengrin) and Sieglinde (Walküre) are compelling flesh-and-blood women worthy of the music given them to sing. There is Karin Branzell, worthy successor to Schumann-Heink as Erda (Rheingold and Siegfried), Fricka (Walküre), Waltraute (Götterdämmerung), Brangaene ( Tristan), Baritone Friedrich Schorr vocally unequalled as Wolfram (Tannhäuser), Sachs (Meistersinger), Gunther (Götterdämmerung); Basso Michael Bohnen, big, commanding as King Marke (Tristan), as Hagen (Götterdämmerung...
...Manhattan last week, 66-year-old Ernestine Schumann-Heink, sang her farewell. Early in the season she announced her last season in concert and then set out across the country, trouping as had been her way. She went to St. Louis, Birmingham, Cleveland, Columbus, Chicago, Richmond, Baltimore, to 24 cities before she came to Manhattan. There attended her all the tears and tributes of a last time. The American Legion saluted her. So did the Governors of the 48 states; there were letters from them all, a farewell appreciation for "a lifetime of self-sacrificing service." Mme. Schumann-Heink cried...
...stayed at the Metropolitan through the "Golden Age" when Gadski, Nordica, the de Reszkes, David Bispham and Schumann-Heink were making German music, when Fritzi Scheff was the bait for tired starched magnates, when berthas and hourglass figures were the fashion...