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Boston University Frederick Neal Dow, banker LL.D. Harry Emerson Fosdick, clergyman (Baptist) LL.D. Francis John McConnell, bishop (Methodist Episcopal) LL.D. Albert Enoch Pillsbury, lawyer LL.D. Jacobo Varela, Uruguayan Ambassador LL.D. Frank Alexander Home, banker LL.D...
...Opera Company feeds the public a big human interest story. Three years ago it was Sopranos Marion Talley and Mary Lewis. Last year it was Soprano Grace Moore. All were "poor girls" who had their dreams, worked hard, lived right. This year so far honors go to Soprano Clara Jacobo, 28, daughter of an Italian grocer, who made her debut last week in Il Trovatore...
...flourish, kissed her hands to her public, tossed back its flowers, and the little girl sat spellbound. When she arrived home (Lawrence, Mass.) finally she made a very serious announcement, that she too would become a great singer. The grocer father took no notice. There were seven other Jacobos to feed. Why should little Clara get such notions ? But she kept her dreams, left school before she was 15, worked days in a textile mill, nights in a store, saved every penny until, with what she earned singing in the Holy Rosary Church choir and what her mother could give...
...Singer. Poor girls who work hard, live right, do not always develop into great singers. Marion Talley disappointed. So did Mary Lewis, Grace Moore. But Clara Jacobo promises better things. She has at least, contrary to her predecessors, a mighty voice that fills the far crannies of the opera house. She has had operatic experience, sings and moves with an assurance that projects over the footlights. Her first Leonora quavered occasionally, strayed a bit from the pitch but critics took it all kindly, as part of a debut performance, voted her a useful addition to the Metropolitan roster...
There are six new singers. Sopranos are: Clara Jacobo, born in Italy, brought up in Lawrence, Mass., for three years member of Gallo's San Carlo Opera Company; Pearl Besuner of Cincinnati, for five years with the Cincinnati Zoo Opera; Ai'da Doninelli, Italian, who three years ago came from Central America and settled in Chicago, to make her debut the first week in A'ida. Mezzo-sopranos: Grace Divine of Cincinnati, first week debut in Manon Lescant; Jane 'Carroll (nee Helen Howard) of Louisville, Ky., alumna of the Ziegfeld Follies chorus and The Vagabond King, to make her debut...