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...smoke, never have and never shall" were the emphatic words of Schumann-Heink, celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of her singing career in Boston. "I don't believe in it for women; let us leave just a little of the poetry attached to the name of woman. Of course it is all right for men; but when I see women and especially young girls smoking I could slap their faces right and left...
...Schumann-Heink believes that American men give their women much too much freedom. "American men are undoubtedly the finest I know, but they are cowards in their relations with women! They are afraid of losing them if they assert themselves. That is the state to which our men are dominated by women...
...great contralto is the happy home, and that can only exist if the man rules. Not only the children but the wife as well should look up to and revere the father in every household. American women are quite on a par with our men in Mme. Schumann-Heink's opinion, but they should do something practical with their time instead of wasting it as they do today...
Singer Ernestine Schumann Heink helped out the American Tobacco Co. last week. This concern, like all other tobacco manufacturers has been reluctant to advertise directly to women cigaret smokers, although women at present are an important clientele; but the manufacturers feared arousing the latent U. S. hostility to tobacco (TIME, Jan. 31). Prohibition has taught them much. However, the American Tobacco Co.'s advertising agency advised boldness and got Madame Schumann Heink to testify: "I recommend Lucky Strikes because they are kind to my throat." If Madame Schumann Heink smokes cigarets and yet remains solidly respectable and virtuous...
...Schumann Heink has had eight children (six are living), five of them Herr Heink's, three Herr Schumann's; three of them daughters, five sons. Four sons fought in the U. S. army; the other, a German officer, was killed...