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Great prima donnas usually do their singing in great cities, where great crowds besiege the box office for the privilege of hearing great music. Ganna Walska, different, opened a concert tour last week in the Central High School Auditorium at Binghamton, N. Y. This caused Critic Martha Wheatley in the Binghamton Press (circulation 34,800) to write as follows...
...Walska has a high soprano of some flexibility and range. Her enunciation is something that the artistic world has long sighed for. She has grace and charm sufficient for half a dozen stars of the first magnitude. She is determined to attain the high goal she has set, regardless of vocal equipment...
Also on the air last week was Ganna Walska, charming wife of Harold McCormick, famed more for her wish to sing than for any actual singing. Many a manager has announced Wisher Walska, many an audience has been disappointed until newsmen have denied her a voice and she herself has pleaded stagefright. Evidently the microphone held less terror than a sea of faces for Wisher Walska sang over the radio last week as scheduled, prettily, quaveringly, the "Dich teure Halle" from Tannhauser, Giordoni's Coro Mio Ben, and "Daddy's Sweetheart" by Liza Lehmann...
Notable in last week's announcement was the name of Alexander Smith Cochran, lifelong Republican, carpetmaker of Yonkers, N. Y., third husband of Mme. Ganna Walska (at present Mrs. Harold F. McCormick), once famed as "the world's richest bachelor," founder of Yale's literary Elizabethan Club. He gave...
...Ganna Walska, recovered from trunk troubles suffered at the hands of Manhattan customs officers (TIME, Oct. 8), permitted it to be announced last week that she would sing in Tosca in Washington Nov. 7 as guest artist with the American Music Drama. Walska performances have been promised before, to Chicago and Manhattan, but hitherto something has always intervened.† Walska herself claims acute stagefright...