Word: singer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Harry Lauder, singer, Scot: "Recently at Nashville, Tenn., a Pacific & Atlantic photographer snapped me tipping a Pullman porter. Last week, throughout the U. S. the picture was printed with the caption: 'ANOTHER ILLUSION SHATTERED...
After hours of preliminary tableaux, solo singing, orchestral music, ballet, the cathedral gave over to Gloria Swanson-on-screen who endured through an interminable legend in which a girl, knowing not whether to devote herself to a career as opera singer, to her lover or to a wealthy villain, discovers (in a crystal) the horrible effect of conducting herself for the sake of the career or the loveless wifehood, and thereupon marries the lover. The effect of the lover is not picturized because (according to the faith expounded ardently and ex cathedra by the subtitles) happiness is inevitable when...
Last week the Metropolitan Museum of Art bought John Singer Sargent's large portrait which he called "The Wyndham Sisters," but, since it was gravely named by King Edward VII when he first saw it, "The Three Graces," that remains its common title. The price is supposed to have been nearly $100,000, drawn, from a fund whose name the directors refused to divulge, but very likely the Hearn Fund...
Died. Mrs. Therese Förster Herbert, 65, onetime famed opera singer, widow of Composer Victor Herbert; of pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...watercolor painting by John Singer Sargent Hon. '16 has just been presented to the Fogg Museum by Sir Joseph Duveen...