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...leave Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, form his own producing company to distribute pictures through United Artists. Then Mary Pickford took for a partner Jesse Lasky (who was last week vastly disgruntled by news that M-G-M had contrived to beat him in signing a contract with aging Ernestine Schumann-Heink, whom he had already announced as a star of forthcoming Pickford-Lasky productions...
...noon the sun was shining and the 60-piece 16th Infantry Band from Governor's Island was tootling a patriotic concert, including "American Medley" and "Under the Double Eagle." Then portly Mrs. Tubman, who looks something like old Marc Schumann-Heink and boasts that she "can sing with or without a 60-piece band," mounted the stone platform in front of Washington's statue, launched into "The Star-Spangled Banner" while the band blared mightily and the crowd of 1,000 looked on. munching their lunches...
...brilliant pre-War era belonged Ernestine Schumann-Heink, hardy at 73, broadcasting in Chicago last week for Hoover Vacuum Cleaners and sending flowers to the bewildered Mother Dionne from "Mother Schumann-Heink." Geraldine Farrar, long the high-spirited pet of the Met, has also turned to radio. Sedately she describes the doings on the stage where once she ruled. Mary Garden was resting in Manhattan last week after her Debussy lecture-recitals and a visit to Sing Sing...
...night cheered themselves croupy while tears ran down many a wrinkled old cheek. But why was this great singer retiring at the peak of her career? "Because I like the sun best when it is high." Last week in Manhattan Death came to Marcella Sembrich who, save for Schumann Heink and Calvé, was the last survivor of an age which produced Patti, Lilli Lehmann, Melba, Nordica, Nilsson and the two de Reszkes...
...much as the New Yorkers did eight years ago and it got more. The light, appealing voice seemed better controlled. The Caro Nome with its trills and top was expertly sung. The acting had some meaning. When newsmen asked Marion Talley to explain the change she answered: "Madame Schumann-Heink used to tell me I needed to live and to suffer. Well, maybe I have. That was seven years...