Word: melba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this great singer retiring at the peak of her career? "Because I like the sun best when it is high." Last week in Manhattan Death came to Marcella Sembrich who, save for Schumann Heink and Calvé, was the last survivor of an age which produced Patti, Lilli Lehmann, Melba, Nordica, Nilsson and the two de Reszkes...
...Author Nichols was long the private secretary of the late Soprano Helen ("Xellie") Porter Mitchell who, born near Melbourne, Australia, took the name of Nellie Melba...
...attempted to dazzle her audience by singing an Italian aria. Her father was a storekeeper who played professional baseball in the summertime. Though money was scarce, Geraldine was determined to be an opera-singer. She studied in Boston and in Manhattan where she stood in line to hear Melba, Calve, Lilli Lehmann, Jean de Reszke. The Metropolitan offered to let her sing in a Sunday-night concert but, even at 16, she wanted something better. She persuaded her father to sell his Melrose store and, raking and scraping together some $30,000, set out for Europe on a cattle boat...
Evensong (by Beverley Nichols & Edward Knoblock; Arch Selwyn & Sir Barry Jackson, producers). Glib, ultra-British young Beverley Nichols used to be employed on the personal staff of Dame Nellie Melba. He cashed in on this experience when he wrote Evensong, a novel about a declining diva's race against time. Dramatized and produced in London, the story had a remunerative run. Produced for the first time on a U. S. stage, Evensong again sets one to wondering if the English often go to the theatre just to get out of the rain...
While her mother lay ill in her girlhood home at Meriden, Conn., Soprano Rosa Melba Ponselle gave a concert at Hartford. In the midst of "Home, Sweet Home" she broke down, fled weeping from the stage. Said Robert Kellogg, impresario: "It was the overflow of her vast emotional reservoir...