Word: sopranoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Katherine Osborn will give an address entitled "The Problems of the Modern Girl," and Mrs. William K. Provine, soprano, will render several selections at the meeting of the Society of Harvard Dames to be held this afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Phillips Brooks House...
August Heckscher, 79½, zinc, steel and real estate potentate, philanthropist, is apt to die any minute now, thought Frieda Hempel, 42¾, retired soprano. So she filed application with the Manhattan Supreme Court for an order to have Mr. Heckscher testify immediately concerning his alleged agreement to pay her $48,000 a year for the rest of her life. She claims that she gave up an income of $200,000 a year on the concert stage to help Mr. Heckscher in his philanthropic work...
Ernestine Schumann-Heink, soprano, gave her estate at Grossmont, Calif., valued at $230,000, to the disabled American Veterans of the World War. They will use it as a rest home. Said she at a dinner of disabled veterans in Minneapolis: "I make this gift . . . because you called me 'Mother'. . . . Six years ago in Minneapolis you disabled men drank a silent toast to the two sons I lost in the War-one on the American side and the other on the German. May you all go to California and rest in the most glorious spot I know...
...entertains old friends, few new ones-and opera singers practically not at all. As conductor he is supreme, can vitalize well-worn music as no other of the day. With him the music is the thing. A dowager soprano once fussed "But, maestro, don't you realize that I'm a star...
Frances Alda (soprano, wife of Giulio Gatti-Casazza, czar of the Metropolitan Opera Company) has no children, wants some. Said she: "In a few months I shall ask Miss Spence of the Spence School [Manhattan] to find me two adorable babies. I do not believe in the heredity jinx. I ask only that the babies be intelligent and healthy. I'll want them, regardless of parentage or legitimacy...