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...Star Mothers honored the Unknown Soldier and the Unknown Soldier's Mother. Schoolchildren threw soil from all the States. France and Canada around the roots of a small white birch to be known as the Unknown Soldier's Mother's Tree. Austrian-born Mme Ernestine Schumann-Heink, eight times a mother, eleven times a grandmother, twice a great-grandmother, sang "Taps." Secretary of War Hurley declaimed: "The American mother gave to the nation its soul...
...depended on a little silver turtle, the insignia of the Orden de la Tortuga of which ex-King Alfonso of Spain and the late Dictator Primo de Rivera were charter members. The grandfather turtle (age 14) had been given her when she landed in Manhattan by Grandmother Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Baritone John Charles Thomas, Tenor Beniamino Gigli. So long as it lived she would feel sure of success. Conchita Supervia succeeded in selling out the house with her Carmen, in convincing the audience that she was really Spanish, alluring and sure of her power over men, in recalling the Carmen...
...contralto roles demand singers made up to look stout and ugly. Katisha in The Mikado, in particular, should be "a most unattractive old thing, tra la, with a caricature of a face." For this role last week the brothers Lee & Jake Shubert signed up oldtime Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink, 70. With a company of seasoned Savoyards, the Shuberts' Mikado opens Oct. 16 in Wilmington, Del., will play in Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and other Eastern cities...
Bagging Schumann-Heink was a new move in a small, unobtrusive Gilbert & Sullivan war which has been flourishing for more than a month. Milton Aborn's Civic Light Opera Company played to full houses all summer in Manhattan (TIME, May 18), then went on the road, leaving in its place a troupe which has been doing- fairly well with The Merry Widow and The Chocolate Soldier (TIME, Sept. 21). Aborn's Mikado opened in Boston last month beginning a four-week repertory engagement at the Colonial Theatre. It was booked by the Erlangers. Xo warm friends...
Birthdays. Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Curtis (81), Daniel Carter Beard (Si). Ernestine Schumann-Heink (70). James John Walker (50), Edward Prince of Wales (37), Mrs. Anne Morrow Lind bergh (25), Charles Augustus Lindbergh...