Word: heinke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Erica says, "I hate that label. It's obvious I'm a woman, but what does that have to do with it?" She is well aware that few women have made their mark in the arts, and that they are mostly singers (Schumann-Heink), dancers (Pavlova) or novelists (Jane Austen, the Brontës, George Eliot). There have been women composers like Cécile Chaminade, but no Bachs or Beethovens; painters like Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keeffe, but no Rembrandts or Michelangelos; poets like Sappho and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, but no Dantes...
...enough money, he kept telling himself; he was always dabbling shrewdly in dry cleaning stores and peanut stands. He retired in Pittsburgh, retired again in California after his nose was pushed crooked again. His departure got so gradual it made the farewells of Patti, Sarah Bernhardt and Schumann-Heink look like hasty decisions...
Died. Edward James McNamara, 60, jovial actors' actor; of a heart attack; in Boston. A Paterson (N.J.) policeman and baritone, Mac toured the" U.S. with Schumann-Heink, was one of Caruso's few pupils. In Broadway's Strictly Dishonorable, he was typed for all time as Patrolman Mulligan, ad-libbed two of the play's best lines. When Muriel Kirkland observed that she thought policemen never drank, Mac remarked, "It only seems like never," later made his exit promising to use his nightstick "only in case...
...ladies' behinds, here develops his tenderest relationships with middle-aged ladies (the Misses George, Main and Hattie McDaniel), and each of them is worth a dozen average love scenes. Edward McNamara (an easygoing friend of the Cagneys whose fine, fresh tenor Caruso once coached and whom Madame Schumann-Heink once "discovered" as a caroling Jersey cop) is something new and convincing in villainy. He looks like neither a swindling person or the unconfessed byblow of a neanderthal rake, but like the sort of hard-soft, period Irishman he is supposed to be. Julia Heron's interiors look...
...Back in 1917, soldiers got out their mouth harps, danced with one another; Schumann-Heink was touring the Army camps...