Word: tenore
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Elisha Lee was a large black English Negro. His big soft tenor voice made him rich, enabled him to smoke fat cigars, wear silk socks, fur overcoats, diamond rings, roses. But Elisha Lee was lonely, both as animal and artist. He wanted a white woman to love him. And when he obtained pretty Ownie Tremlett for his wife it was only because she could not resist vulgar luxury in the face of frowsy widowhood in Brighton. They soon hated each other bitterly and a weakling mulatto baby was the core of their hate. Lee drank and died. Ownie reverted...
...disenchanted. They are those idealists who are more often perturbed by what they see than ravished by what they hear; who have listened, at Tosca, to an aria that spoke to them of all the rapture, the pathos of a consummate and fated love, and have seen a stubby tenor waddle forward on tiptoe to knead the arms of a diva who out-topped him by several inches; who have heard, in Bohēme, a little catch, light as a falling feather, gay as a string of beads, delivered by a Musetta under whom a property table, reinforced with...
...first of a series of organ recitals, which will be held throughout the year, will be held tomorrow afternoon in Appleton Chapel at 5 o'clock. Professor A. T. Davison '05 will play the organ, assisted by George Renwick '25, who is a tenor...
This evening in Sanders Theatre, a concert by Roland Hayes, the young negro tenor, who has won well deserved applause at home and abroad. His program includes classics, German lieder and negro spirituals...
Roland Hayes, well-known negro tenor, will give a program of Italian, German, English, and negro songs, in Sanders Theatre tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock...