Word: tininess
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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...soldier's daughter." It begins that simply. Then comes the story: Ernestine ("Tini") Rossler was an Austrian, born in Prague. But she lived her first years in Verona in the soldiers' barracks. The father was a "roughneck" but the mother was a lady, tired always, with poverty and childbearing. Tini herself was always hungry, used to skip school often to go to the circus people in the marketplace where she cleaned monkey cages in exchange for food. Soldiers change their stations often. It was in Graz that the Rosslers bought a decrepit piano for a dollar and Tini...
...Dresden Opera Tini Rossler served her apprenticeship with promise of success. But then she married Ernst Heink and a burden of debts, lost her job. Then came four children, dark days. Heink deserted her. The sheriff took everything but a bed, three chairs, a stove, the children. Finally they had to be sent to her parents. Then came engagements in Berlin, Hamburg. A temperamental contralto balked and Heink got big roles, made them bigger. She married Paul Schumann, an actor. Together in 1898 they came to the U. S. In Chicago a month before another baby, she made her debut...