Word: norton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus went Nordica's life-from a heyday that was richly spectacular to an ending deeply pathetic. She was born plain Lillian Norton in Farmington, Me. She sang in church choirs in Boston, toured with a brass band until she could afford to study opera in Italy. Like Lilli Lehmann, she began with light florid roles, won great success. But her ambition soared higher. She went to Bayreuth, worked with Wagner's widow, became a finished Wagnerian. As a prima donna at the Metropolitan Opera she conducted herself royally. For her audiences she had unfailing charm; for herself...
...South Shore Country Club, short, bald Drugman Walgreen and his wife take breakfast together. Before Daughter Ruth and Son Charles Jr. were married, they, too, turned up for breakfast. The Walgreens are given to talking much over their eggs. But since Mrs. Walgreen's niece Lucille Norton graduated from a Seattle high school and went East to stay with the Walgreens while she attended the University of Chicago, the conversation has been less & less to the Walgreens' taste...
Least concerned was Niece Lucille Norton. Found by newshawks last week in an armchair with a book entitled The Meaning of Marx at hand, she scoffed at the idea of any Communist trying to "convert" her, admitted that Chicago is "one of the best places to learn about Communism if you want...
...motto by Editor George Horace Lorimer (Saturday Evening Post), talked darkly of Reds and Sedition. As soon as they had gone he called his secretary, dictated a letter to the University's able young President Robert Maynard Hutchins: "With regret, I am having my niece. Miss Lucille Norton, discontinue her studies at the University of Chicago. I am unwilling to have her absorb the Communistic influences to which she is so insidiously exposed...
...play the cast will consist of two Dramatic Club members and three Radcliffe students. Norton Goodwin '38 and Frederick M. Miller '37 will have the male roles, and Clara West Butler, Romola Robb, and Ruth Williams will share the feminine honors...