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...impresario." Nothing daunted, Mme Savage readily embraced life in the chorus, which she says is happy because "you mix with the greatest artists in the world." By those artists Mme Savage came to be loved and respected, to be called "Maman" and "Mother." Farrar gave her a wig, Nellie Melba jewels, Sibyl Sanderson a fan-all of which used to figure in Maman Savage's garb when she appeared as an aristocratic Parisian in Andrea Chenier. Caruso gave her an opal ring, a gold medal of himself which he had struck off for friends...
...chef; in Monte Carlo. Beginning as a member of Napoleon Ill's kitchen staff during the Franco-Prussian War, Escoffier became a cook in the grand manner, fed Kaiser Wilhelm salmon steamed in champagne, plied King George V with variations of cream cheese (a favorite dish), invented peach Melba. Other Escoffier creations: Sauce Diable, quail Richelieu, filet of sole Waleska. He knew more than 5,000 recipes, wrote a monumental cookbook which he modestly prefaced: "It would be absurd to aspire to fix the destinies...
...when pure German Lieder brought an uproar of applause. Lotte Lehmann's next stop was Detroit where she sang over the radio on the Ford Symphony Hour. She hurried then to Boston to sing in the famed old mansion which belonged to Mrs. Jack Gardner who had Nellie Melba for her guest there 30 years ago. Back in Manhattan she was then to sing in Lohengrin, her first Metropolitan Elsa. Next week to benefit Mrs. William Randolph Hearst's Free Milk Fund for Babies she will enact the Marschallin in Der Rosenkavalier, a great and subtle role...
...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...