Word: singer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prussian paternalism, proud, self-righteous, and unbending, against the new spirit of freedom and the unbreakable will of a talented, restless woman. Magda, driven to leave her home early in life by the narrow and unsympathetic intolerance of her father returns twelve years later, a great and universally honored singer. But before attaining this pinnacle of success she had gone through a long period of degradation and poverty. She had been true to herself always, but realizes that her father with his stern and limited conception of morality could never comprehend the irregularities of a life so fundamentally different from...
...work winning new souls. For 50 years Gypsy Smith has opposed the snow-white pulpits and the gaudy theatrical devices of such sensationalists as Rev. William A. Sunday and Rev. Aimee Semple McPherson. "I am alone," he once said. "It is just Jesus and I. I have no singer, no press agent, no personal worker and no chorus leader. . . . Jesus Christ was the greatest gentleman the world ever knew, and He was an evangelist." Nevertheless, the press last week did not neglect to report that Gypsy Smith, "the father of all evangel ists," was on the way from Co lumbia...
...into the minds of what she may safety term "her public." It matters not at all if he visualizes her as a cross between a football manager and a Dartmouth undergraduate because nothing is so productive at the box office as a well advertised star--not even an excellent singer...
...year from this June I am going to end my career as a singer. I shall then have been on the concert stage for 52 years which is quite enough and shall go back to my home in California for the rest of my days. I think every American should see this country before going to Europe as so many do. The scenery is quite as wonderful as abroad, and as for atmosphere, ancient buildings and the rest, most tourists get nothing out of these anyway, and might quite as well gape in their own country...
...Singer Christine Nilsson, who played Mignon, name part, in the first production at Paris, brought the opera to the Academy of Music in Manhattan in 1871, to the Metropolitan Opera House in 1883. The last singer to dare the role was Geraldine Farrar. She was 26 years old then...