Word: singed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spring of 1898 Maurice Grau, then General Manager of the Metropolitan, offered to let her sing in a Sunday night concert, but Farrar, 16, refused. A Sunday night concert was no occasion for a prima donna's debut. Instead Sidney Farrar sold his store in Melrose, borrowed, in addition, from a Mrs. Bertram Webb of Boston some $30,000* and the Farrars started for Europe?on a cattle boat...
...Berlin. From 1901 to 1906 the sensation at the Berlin Imperia, Opera was MISS GERALDINE FARRAR AUS NEW YORK. She began as Marguerite in Faust, doing the unheard of thing, singing in Italian in a Berlin house, holding a contract saying that she need not sing in German until she had had time to learn the language. She was 19, sparkling, as she is today. The Kaiser was interested; so was the Crown Prince. The Hofmarshall brought her an invitation to appear at the Palace one night. She must wear black or lavender and gloves, for the court...
...Harvard Association of Eastern New York. A three day intermission is probable from the 24 until the 26 although there may be a concert in Hamilton, N. Y. on the 26. A concert in Toronto is scheduled for the 27 and on the next night the club will sing in Ottowa, a concert which will be attended by the Governor General, and the Right Honorable W. L. MacKenzie, Premier of Canada...
...Here in My arms" of "Dearest Enemy' but then, few songs could. "Where's That Rainbow?" has a nice lilt and good lyrics: "A Tree in A Park" sounded awfully good to us but then Helen Ford sang it and as far as we're concerned she could sing anything and we'd ask for more. No criticism would be complete without several bravas for Lulu McConnell: she may be vulgar but she's very funny and she has a laugh that does things to your vertebrae and almost shatters the Wilbur chandeliers. Betty Sarbuck, as Alice, Penfant terrible...
Come, workers, sing a rebel song, A song of love and hate; Of love unto the lowly And of hatred to the great, The great who trod our fathers down, Who steal our children's bread, Whose hand of greed is stretched to rob The living and the dead...