Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: . . . Your reporter must be referring to two other people as "Mammy Singer" Jolson presented a commendable performance here on Jan. 30, 1930. Estimated attendance: 4,000. Average price of tickets: $2.00. Estimated receipts: $8,000. Obviously Vienna would have used poor judgment by refusing to meet "Mammy Singer" Jolson's price...
Famed French musicians are few-the U. S. public knows the names of Conductor Pierre Monteux, Pianist Alfred Cortot and a few others. Of the 97 principals in the Metropolitan Opera Company, in recent years there has been but one French singer, Basso Léon Rothier. Last week Basso Rothier was joined by a compatriot-Tenor Antonin Trantoul, a native of Toulouse and War veteran whose singing has won high praise in Paris, Italy, South America. He sang Faust in the Metropolitan's 200th performance of the Gounod opera. He was weak-voiced, uneven and unduly doddering...
...called his native country "the old sow that eats her farrow." He has been back to Ireland only twice since he left: in 1904 to open Dublin's first cinema; the last time in 1912. In 1904 he married Nora Barnacle, Galway girl; they have two children; Singer George, Dancer Lucia (who last year wrote a play about a girl who fell in love with the Pont Alexandre-Trois, famed Paris bridge...
When asked how she spent all her spare time when not playing in "The Little Show", the singer replied that she had no spare time...
When famed singers like Feodor Chaliapin, Amelita Galli-Curci or Beniamino Giglo give concerts in Vienna they are usually paid $2,000 or $3,000 per appearance. When Al Jolson, mammy song singer, now vacationing in Europe, was asked last week by a Viennese manager to sing there, he replied that he would-for $5,000. Vienna refused the bargain...