Word: linde
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spirit moved him. Piano-Maker Theodore Steinway tried to impersonate bigheaded Richard Wagner. Violinist Albert Spalding caused a momentary stir when he came before the court and said: "I, Paganini, am not dead." He played none too well, and when Soprano Frieda Hempel did her old Jenny Lind act, she sang off pitch. But nobody minded, especially when Soprano Bori came forward. Soprano Bori that evening was Adelina Patti, dressed in crinoline, a wreath around her hair. "I, Adelina Patti." she said, "have a message for you from one of my much younger colleagues. Lucrezia Bori. The Metropolitan has been...
Sculptress Hoffman was born in New York 45 years ago, the daughter of British Pianist Richard Hoffman who was imported to the U. S. by Phineas Taylor Barnum in 1850 as accompanist for Jenny Lind. Later he was soloist for New York's Philharmonic Society Orchestra. The Hoffmans were quickly accepted by the very stiffest New York society. But there were five children; finances were slim. Malvina Hoffman earned money to continue her art studies by painting portraits of her friends, designing book jackets, covers for sheet music, wall paper, linoleum...
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...
...MORRIS A Entry D. L. Goldenberg 31 B N. M. Lind B-21 C J. Auchmoody C-26 D W. B. McClellan D-25 E M. Slonim E-14 F J. H. Gage...
...Lady's Morals (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This unimportant little picture has its principal appeal in the fact that it is supposed to be based on the life of Jenny Lind, "Swedish Nightingale" of the Victorian Opera stage. Its best shots are the few that are definitely part of her history?the scenes at Castle Garden, and P. T. Barnum showing Miss Lind U. S. ballyhoo. Its main fault is that it sketches an amorous interlude in the life of a singer who was a notorious prig. Grace Moore, onetime musicomedy star, Metropolitan soprano, sings nicely and acts adequately...