Word: sopranoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...born. U.S. readers, scanning the list, wondered. The six: Leone Krause (dramatic soprano) Chase Baromeo (basso) Olga Kargau (soprano) Elinor Mario (mezzo-soprano) Lucille Meusel (mezzo-soprano) Delia Samoiloff (soprano) It was not until they had read further to the effect that Miss Krause is the daughter of a Michigan clergyman; that Mr. Baromeo is a native of Ann Arbor, a graduate of the University of Michigan; that Miss Kargau went through a Chicago high school; that Miss Mario was trained for opera in San Francisco; that Miss Meusel is the daughter of a Wisconsin traveling salesman-that U.S. readers...
Mary McCormic, soprano, one-time protegee of Mary Garden, and William Martin, tenor, onetime (1921) mainstay of the Harvard Glee Club, broke a precedent last week in Paris. They were the first natives of the U. S. ever to appear in leading roles at the National Opera. They sang well the roles of Marguerite and Faust, respectively, in Charles Francois Gounod's mighty Faust...
Engaged. Louise Hunter, famed soprano of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Manhattan; to Henry Haven Windsor Jr., editor and publisher of Popular Mechanics magazine...
Namiko San, a Japanese opera with libretto and music by Aldo Franchetti, features Tamaki Miura, Japanese soprano. Little Mme. Miura's fingers are like daisy petals in careful array. Her voice carries a suggestion of tartness. Her movements are all nicely studied. Her role is that of a 16-year-old maiden of ancient Japanese legend, in love with a Buddhist monk from the white mountain tops, possessed by a tyrannous Daimio, lord of the low, broad acres...
Engaged. Hamilton Eames, brother of Actress Clare Eames, nephew of famed Mme. Emma Eames de Gogorza, onetime Metropolitan soprano; to Marian Bull, granddaughter of Ainsley Wilcox of Buffalo, in whose house the late Theodore Roosevelt took the President's oath of office...