Word: singer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Homers, husband, son and daughters of Contralto Louise Homer who that afternoon was not Louise Homer at all but Amneris, Egyptian princess in Verdi's Aida. For the Homers it was a memorable afternoon: for Composer Sidney Homer, her partner in music; for Louise Homer Stires,* herself a singer; for Sidney Homer Jr. and his wife; for the twins, Anne Marie and Katharine, 20, and for Hester Makepeace, 16, who could remember years ago being taken by their nurse to watch the same Egyptian princess; to Joy, 12, who had never in all her life seen her mother "dressed...
Someone in the gallery began to clap first; as the music faded, the applause gathered and grew quicker; then voices cheered, diplomats and dowagers crowded toward the stage on which a girl was nodding and laughing and stooping to pick up flowers. The enthusiasm that greets an opera singer's debut is sometimes the lightest, the most sudden, the most exciting that any artist can ever achieve. Dorothy Speare, last week in Washington, was enjoying a moment that she must always remember for its exquisite gaiety, thrown to her like a bouquet...
...first, newsgatherers jostled at the stage door. They learned that her writings had furnished the wherewithal for her musical education; that even now she was writing a play for famed David Belasco to produce and her fifth novel; that her real name, which belongs to a onetime singer now a banker and her husband, is Mrs. Christmas...
...Claudel was advertised as a patron. On the stage appeared Mary Lewis and Jeanne Gordon of the Metropolitan; famed French tenor Maurice Capitaine, sent specially for the occasion by the French Ministry of Fine Arts, had arrived the day before Mignon. Plaudits for him perhaps surpassed those tendered Novelist-singer Christmas...
...Farrar left the Metropolitan. Greatest publicity has been given to an alleged row with Maria Jeritza, new Austrian import then, because Jeritza was given certain of Farrar's roles. But Farrar and Jeritza never met, the latter admired the U. S. singer tremendously, went often to hear her. The truth was that Farrar, sole relic of the Conried star system, was getting bits of discipline from the management. She herself was tired out, vocally, spiritually. The death of her mother had been difficult for her. There had been the divorce from Cinema-Hero Lou Tellegen* whom she married...