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Aged Singer Ernestine Schumann-Heink helped dedicate a memorial auditorium in Sacramento, Calif. She instructed U. S. War mothers who had been wrangling over the presence of Negro, Japanese and Chinese children at the dedication: "As a War mother I know what it means to suffer. I gave five sons, four to Uncle Sam and one to his old fatherland. It is up to War mothers to teach their children the love of law, and not make a difference between black or yellow or brown or white skins. . . . You make war among yourselves-through your children...
...which Roxy masters ceremonies. In his tense, high-pitched New-Yorkese he makes every skit seem a bargain. Typical Roxy introduction: "Hello Everybody! Now you're going to hear the greatest little girl. . . ." The "greatest little girl" in Roxy's present gang is Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink, 69, who will perform twice daily throughout the tour...
Influenza (see p. 26) seized many a notable, including: Mme Ernestine Schumann-Heink; Prohibition Director Amos Walter Wright Woodcock; Prisoner, onetime Queens Borough President Maurice Connolly; Wickersham Commissioner and Radcliffe College President Ada Louise Comstock; Utah's Senator Reed Smoot...
Baritone Reinald Werrenrath will advertise Camel cigarets. Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink, having completed a series of farewell tours, will sing 15 minutes every week for Enna Jettick shoes. Stations not included on either of the nation-wide chains (Columbia and National Broadcasting) present local talent paid for by local merchants...
...Danny Boy," Arditi's "Bolero" and Brahms' "Cradle Song." The old lady was 69 and a great-grandmother but she repeated her vaudeville turn four times a day on seven successive days with an added appearance on Saturday and Sunday. She was, of course, Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink who for four years past has been saying farewell to her public. Her vaudeville debut last week accompanied the showing of Mamba, scenario of which was written by her son Ferdinand. Her recipe for endurance : "I know how to sing now. I don't shout as I did when...