Word: schumann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...monocle, but he did display the entire range of his versatility. With conventional operatic zest he sang an aria from Mehul's almost forgotten Joseph in Egypt. His loud tones were not always smooth but there was none of the nasal bleating common to most German tenors. Lieder by Schumann and Schubert he sang with expert tenderness, using perhaps too often a pianissimo of exquisite softness. The rest of the evening was Lehar, Lehar cheered by an audience which refused to go home until it had heard "Dein ist meinganzes Herz" ("Thine Is My Heart Alone") from The Land...
...ladies. The contralto roles demand singers made up to look stout and ugly. Katisha in The Mikado, in particular, should be "a most unattractive old thing, tra la, with a caricature of a face." For this role last week the brothers Lee & Jake Shubert signed up oldtime Contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink, 70. With a company of seasoned Savoyards, the Shuberts' Mikado opens Oct. 16 in Wilmington, Del., will play in Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and other Eastern cities...
...Bagging Schumann-Heink was a new move in a small, unobtrusive Gilbert & Sullivan war which has been flourishing for more than a month. Milton Aborn's Civic Light Opera Company played to full houses all summer in Manhattan (TIME, May 18), then went on the road, leaving in its place a troupe which has been doing- fairly well with The Merry Widow and The Chocolate Soldier (TIME, Sept. 21). Aborn's Mikado opened in Boston last month beginning a four-week repertory engagement at the Colonial Theatre. It was booked by the Erlangers. Xo warm friends...
Birthdays. Cyrus Herman Kotzschmar Curtis (81), Daniel Carter Beard (Si). Ernestine Schumann-Heink (70). James John Walker (50), Edward Prince of Wales (37), Mrs. Anne Morrow Lind bergh (25), Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
Aged Singer Ernestine Schumann-Heink helped dedicate a memorial auditorium in Sacramento, Calif. She instructed U. S. War mothers who had been wrangling over the presence of Negro, Japanese and Chinese children at the dedication: "As a War mother I know what it means to suffer. I gave five sons, four to Uncle Sam and one to his old fatherland. It is up to War mothers to teach their children the love of law, and not make a difference between black or yellow or brown or white skins. . . . You make war among yourselves-through your children...