Word: sopranoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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First of these is Soprano Ethel Dreda Aves, niece and daughter of Episcopalian clergymen, her uncle being Bishop of Mexico. When she left her home in Galveston, to cultivate her voice her father stormed: "I would sooner see you dead here at my feet than appearing behind the footlights of a stage...
...Soprano Leonora Corona of Dallas, Soprano Mildred Parisette of Philadelphia, Mezzosoprano Margaret Bergin of Pater son, and Bass-baritone Fred Patton of South Manchester, Conn., are the other U. S. natives...
...whiskey peer's petite daughter stalling her huge Daimler Double Six in traffic at Picadilly Circus. . . A stout soprano anxiously cranking her Ford backward in the Corso Vittorio Emanuele. . . A bony art student swerving her lemon-colored Citroen into a swaying taxi to avoid a Paris pushcart. . . Perhaps the memory of such typical incidents as these influenced members of the International Commission on Air Navigation, who assembled in London last week, and were called upon to decide whether women should be licensed to operate commercial aircraft. A decision had to be made, and quickly, for Mme. Boland, famed French...
Died. Rosa Sucher, 78, famed oldtime Wagnerian opera soprano; almost penniless, at Eschweiler, Germany. In her years of glory she was appointed court singer and decorated by Emperor William I. The early failure of her voice was reputedly caused by the midnight suppers which she arranged for her conductor-husband's delectation. Once, at Beyrouth she ate a full bottle of anchovies between the first and second acts of Die Walkure...
Married. Mary Lewis, 27, one-time Follies soprano; to Michel Franz Bohnen, 39, muscular? basso-baritone; both of the Metropolitan Opera; in Manhattan, by Mayor J. J. Walker...