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...fortnight ago Mme. Luisa Tetrazzini canceled an engagement in Albert Hall, London. She could not sing, she explained, because she had taken a severe chill while vocalizing at the obsequies of the late Queen Alexandra. Last week she stood on the stage of Plymouth Hall and murmured in a rasping whisper that her cold had grown worse but that her protege, Luella Paikin, would substitute for her. Five minutes after she left the platform she broke down, summoned a physician, went...
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...Luisa Tetrazzini-she for whom cannon have been fired, roses thrown, dress-suited cavaliers hitched in place of horses to glistening carriages-appeared in Albert Hall, London, before some Britishers. The Hall was more than half empty. The buxom woman trilled her best but Oh! the stolid faces, Ah! the gaping stalls. Afterwards, downcast, she assailed her agents, saying that they had charged too ninth, advertised too little. The agents politely replied that a singer of Tetrazzini's fame did not need much advertising, that she could command tall rates, but that she should not cheapen her voice...
...voice of Tetrazzini, not strong but of great resonance, was peculiarly suited to the radio. Her singing was rebroadcasted to all the British stations and was heard by enthusiasts on the Continent. Many vainly hoped that the U. S. coastal stations would pick up the tremoring wave lengths, as they did those of a jazz concert at the Hotel Savoy, London, a few days later...
Oscar Hammerstein, helped by the weather, persuaded Tetrazzini to leave London and come to Manhattan in 1908. It was a wet week in London. Tetrazzini was depressed, idle. Hammerstein had tea with her. She returned with him, sang three successful seasons at the Manhattan Opera House, Manhattan, for which she received $2,500 a performance. She afterwards sang with the Metropolitan, the Boston Opera Company- "gala seasons" all. Her last U. S. appearance was in Trenton in May, 1921- a concert with which she ended a prolonged tour. Since, she has sung occasionally here and there, but for the most...