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...attract them. Almost every house has a group or club aimed at the under-30 crowd. When Robert B. Driver took over as general director of the Opera Company of Philadelphia five years ago, he began to woo young professionals. Presto!--a brand new event called the Puccini-tini, a martini-tasting bash. A Junior Guild, for people under 35, offers a package of dinners and discounts plus a chance to try out as a spear carrier in Aida. It may sound corny, but it works: in the 1990-91 season the Philadelphia had 3,099 subscribers; today the number...
...Summary: HARVARD NORTHEASTERN Faude, g. g.,Mella Stollmeyer, l.f.b. l.f.b., Stetson, Gorbell Blake, r.f.b. r.f.b., Booker Bland, l.h.b. l.h.b., Bazley Carter, Kane, c.h.b. c.h.b., Hess Howe, Carter, Forrester, r.h.b. r.h.b., Sherys Boddle, l.o.f. l.o.f., Tini Frame, l.i.f. l.i.f., Wyrzywciski, Moseman Broadbent, c.f. c.f., c.f.,Thompson Dorman, r.i.f., r.i.f., Kershaw Grover, Carrigan, r.o.f. r.o.f., Tiffany...
...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...