Word: singer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...where Dubosc had arranged for Helma's apprenticeship. In Tours she was soon the prima donna, successful because she was healthy, worked hard, sang splendidly. John O'Brien, a visiting tenor, heard her, got her an engagement in Paris. Then came the problem of Raymond. A young singer at the Paris Opera should have no handicaps. Raymond, fortunately, understood this. Helma's next episode was Ravet...
...Metropolitan Opera Company. There critics thought her a little cold but her prestige grew as it had in Europe. Her sole defeat was a trip to Mexico City under none other than Impresario Gonsalvo. She had been tempted by the offer of the highest fee ever paid a woman singer. But she offended the politician-backer, sang badly and had to be hustled out of the city to save her skin. The experience shook her confidence, ruined Gonsalvo. For Gonsalvo she magnanimously provided, for herself there was Ashley Jocelyn, considerate, correct...
Muriel Draper was born in New England, bred in Italy and France. She married the late Paul Draper, singer of songs, brother of Monologist Ruth Draper; and for six years they entertained in Vienna, in Florence, in London. Divorced before Paul died, Muriel Draper now works as interior decorator...
Maurice Chevalier. This keen, young, handsome French song-singer has long been a good reason for a trip to Paris. Now he has come to the U. S. Primarily he came to make motion pictures but, while the operator is changing the reels, Mr. Ziegfeld has captured him for that Midnight Frolic which Mr. Ziegfeld insists is "atop" the New Amsterdam Theatre. Best songs: about Valentine, and M. et Mme. Elephant...
...thought it was good, except that Calvin Coolidge never held his head as imperiously as that (see col. 2), and it makes him a lot younger, firmer-fleshed, cleaner cut, than he really looks. That, however, may be what a good portrait should do. Furthermore, as the late John Singer Sargent once said: "A portrait is a picture in which something-is-wrong-with-the-eyes...