Word: raquel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When she could make herself heard, Raquel Meller began her U. S. career with a simple Spanish folksong, a song which might be the distant Castilian cousin of "Old Black Joe." It was so simple, so undemonstrative, that the connoisseurs after listening intently were conservative in their applause. The lights went up and they rustled their programs to find the condensed translation of the next song. The lights went down, Meller sang; again the applause was careful, a bit puzzled. From 9:15 to 10.45 it continued?songs of love, toreadors, religion, clothes?with one long intermission in which...
Temperamentally offended by personal publicity, Raquel Meller has been the inspiration for much befuddled biography. It is, however, generally agreed that she was born in Saragossa, in Aragon, Spain, between 30 and 40 years ago. Some say that her parents were performers. She was taught to sew?at which art she went nearly blind once?and to sing Vespers in a convent, from which she escaped with the help of the gardener's ladder...
...farce and slim figures alternate. The U. S. contributions are as usual and a little better than usual. About the French there is not much to report except that Yvonne George sings her songs. Mlle. George is to many people the greatest European revue and cabaret artist, only excepting Raquel Meller. To miss her is to miss one of the most, if not the most, extraordinary experience to be had at any revue this season...
...eight pieces of sculpture there on show. Strange forms of a significance remindful of the tortuous ideas in Novelist James Branch Cabell's Jurgen revealed themselves. Famed Etcher Joseph Pennell was loud in his praise of their originality. Much interest centred about a bust of the famed Spanish Singer Raquel Meller...
...Raquel Meller, a European enthusiasm, well press-agented, will come to the U.S. this winter...