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...Yale romantics like to think ''The Long, Long Trail" was written, Stod King's initials are carved on one of the big round table tops strung up around the wall. But his song is carved still deeper in the history of the War. Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink and Tenor Enrico Caruso sang it in Liberty Loan drives. Elsie Janis sang it in France from the back of a truck. The first U. S. troops to land in England marched in review to it before Ambassador Page and Admiral Sims. British soldiers sang it when they were lined...
Unlike most young U. S. singers engaged lately by the Metropolitan, Tenor Crooks had made his name beforehand. At 11 he was a wonder boy soprano, commuting from his home in Trenton to sing at All Angels' Episcopal Church in Manhattan. At 12 he sang with Ernestine Schumann-Heink in a huge Ocean Grove (N. J.) festival, maintained perfect poise until the motherly contralto brought him back for a bow, gave him a resounding kiss. The War turned Richard Crooks's mind from singing. He overstated his age to join the 626th Aero Squadron, learned flying from...
...Detroit Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink, 71, proudly making her living on a "four-a-day" vaudeville circuit, told how she answered New York women who spoke pityingly of her "comedown." "I said, 'You! You have rich husbands. And your husbands are jumping out of ten-story windows these days. That is a comedown...
...Tivoli Opera House started its career in 1875. Beer flavored the performances there but, alternating light opera and grand, the house managed to keep open all year round-an achievement never equaled in the U. S. The Metropolitan Opera visited San Francisco three times-with Calve, Melba, Eames, Schumann-Heink, Fremstad, Gadski, Sembrich. Caruso, the de Reszkes. Early one morning during the third visit the earth started rumbling and quaking, knocked the entire company out of bed, frightened Enrico Caruso so badly that even though he was offered $25,000 he would not go back to 'Frisco...
...longer considered disgraceful for famed "singers to swell their incomes by singing in cinemansions. Contralto Margaret Matzenauer sang last week at Roxy's where Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink, another Metropolitan Opera alumna, has sung several times. Soprano Frances Alda, a mound of red velvet and jewels, last week did a turn at the Palace, Manhattan vaudeville house...