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People everywhere have heard Nellie Melba sing "Home Sweet Home," "Comin' Thro' the Rye," Tosti's "Goodbye." Opera crowds have seen her as Mimi in La Bohème, Violetta in La Traviata, Marguerite in Faust, Gilda in Rigoletto, Lucia, Juliette. The pure and springlike quality of her voice established her as Patti's greatest successor. It lasted her well through middle age because she used it so intelligently, won her triumphs for 40 years. Melba's life was as glamorous as the prima donna of fiction. She made her American debut at the Metropolitan in 1893 five days after famed...
...good Manhattanite (he was born in Rye, N. Y., says he has 10,000 cousins in North Carolina, a great-great-granduncle who gave his name to Nashville, Tenn.), Ogden Nash praises Manhattan in Manhattanish accents...
Into a drawing room on an outbound train at Manhattan's 125th Street station was carried a case of Golden Wedding rye whiskey, one day last week." But it was not a Senator or a Governor or even a Mayor who was leaving town for a pleas ure jaunt. It was New York's nervous, hollow-eyed, pasty-faced little racketeer, Jack ("Legs") Diamond. He was going home to the Catskill Mountains. Dressed in a flashy coat, grey spats and a checked cap, carrying two novels (Jury of Death, Super-City), he had just been released from...
They rode as far as Harmon where rail road police took up the vigil. At Hudson, N. Y., Diamond and the Golden Wedding rye were carefully transferred to a Cadillac limousine, ferried across the river, driven to Acra...
Died. William Louis Courtleigh, 61, actor (Fedora, Electro., Tiger Rose, L'Aiglon, The Ninth Guest), onetime (1913-17) Shepherd of The Lambs (Manhattan theatrical club); of acute in digestion; in Rye...