Word: singer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago a U. S. singer unknown to fame, one Richard Bonelli, made his début as Germont Sr. in La Traviata. He proved to have one of those baritone voices that make connoisseurs think of the golden, summery booming of an enormous bee. The audience called him out for endless curtain calls. Said critics...
...Hans would not agree. Rather than do that, he said, he would become an opera singer...
...past nine months critics have been writing estimates of John Singer Sargent. All that can be said about a great man in the period immediately following his death has been said; but more eloquent than any encomium were the fantastic prices for his pictures at the recent London sale...
...decoration for a magazine poem; that 'Science Measuring the Heavens While a Young Woman Makes Record' looks like a satire upon the modern Babbitt's indispensable stenographer. Such things are matters of opinion, and the only opinion which has not yet been given upon John Singer Sargent is that of posterity...
Married. For the sixth time, De Wolf Hopper, 67, famed Thespian, to Lillian Glaser, 29, singer, widow of a California dentist; at Hartfod, Conn. Mr. Hopper's five former wives were named respectively Ella, Ida, Edna, Nella, Ella. Edna, still billed in vaudeville as "Edna Wallace Hopper" is now advertising, at 50? and $1.00 a box, "the beauty aids which keep me at my grand old age (51) looking like a girl." In 1881 Comedian Hopper appeared in a confection labeled: One Hundred Wives...