Word: mccormack
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tomorrow,. Sunday afternoon, Mr. John McCormack will sing in Symphony Hall...
...Manhattan with several of the bidders. The troubles-and they were to some extent anticipated-came from the small number of the bids and the inadequacy of the majority of them. It was disappointing to the Board that lines such as the International Mercantile Marine, Luckenbach, Moore and McCormack, Cosmopolitan, C. D. Mallory & Co., and the Barber Line did not make offers. The Board's ray of hope was that such offers as had been made would be improved by the bidders in the ensuing conferences...
...audience refused to leave when the lights were extinguished after a recital by John McCormack, forcing him to sing two encores in semi-darkness." So runs a wireless despatch reporting the Irish tenor's appearance in Berlin. This sort of thing certainly gives the lie to the opinion still in vogue among cynical subway riders that McCormack's reputation results from crowding audiences of servant girls and from other manifestations of Gaelic loyalty. The tenor, far from being a showy player to gushy sentiment, is one of the most refined and scholarly of artists...
Ganna Walska McCormack, before making vocal advances to audiences in New York and Chicago, gave Detroit a taste of her quality. Here are some comments, taken at random from the Detroit press: "But she has not much of a voice "; "a woman of courage"; "nasal squeaks"; "sad, hopeful, handsome, ambitious, incompetent artist"; "program was mercifully brief"; "sincere worker in the field of art." Mme. Walska explains that she does not take Detroit critics seriously. Her Chicago debut has been indefinitely postponed...
...Union Billiard Tournament yesterday, H. W. Chang 2G. B. defeated D. F. McCormack 2G. B. in a close match. 30-79, while K. W. Wilson '25 won from Solomon Steinberg 1G. B., 100-72. In the pool tournament, P. G. Kellar '24 defeated G. H. Perkina...