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March 01, 1976
Profiles
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SINGING WITH THE BIG DADS [ABSTRACT]
- PROFILE of Sherrill Milnes, baritone with the Met. Opera, who has, at the age of 40, taken his place amoung the great Verdi baritones. Tells about his early life on the family farm in Hinsdale, a suburb of Chicago , where he received his first music training from his mother. Throughout…
November 12, 1932
Fiction
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The audition [ABSTRACT]
- Mr. Lane is told by his secretary that a Miss Stacey is waiting to be auditioned. She comes in with a big woman, her accompanist, who does most of the talking for her. They all go down to the stage, and Miss Stacey sings. She has a bigger voice than…
October 06, 1928
Fiction
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Repatriation of the minstrel [ABSTRACT]
- Why not send all the singers who want to go back to Alabama, etc., back and be done with it…
March 20, 1926
Profiles
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"Hausfrau Prima Donna" [ABSTRACT]
- Profile of Ernestine Schumann-Heink, opera singer at 65. Has never had a press agent. Is past mistress of art of press agent hokum, herself. Fond of housework. 28 years ago came to this country to sing at Metropolitan, Maurice Grau, the Gatti of that day. For the hardheaded old…
September 18, 1954
The Talk of the Town
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[The Talk of the Town] [ABSTRACT]
- Overheard on West Forty-seventh Street near Broadway, one informally dressed young man to another: "Well, if he's as good a singer as they say he is, and they say he's as good as I am, that makes him a pretty damn good singer, doesn't it…
April 13, 1940
Fiction
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Salome [ABSTRACT]
- The opera singer who kept a pickled human head, sliced neatly through, so that no detail of palate, tonsils, sinuses, or vocal cords could be missed…
November 13, 1926
Fiction
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[Fiction] [ABSTRACT]
- The voice. Ever since she began taking lessons it has been known as the voice. Somehow the definite article, in place of a possessive pronoun, suggested abstract infinity, something to be discussed only in reverential whispers. Oldtimers coming back to town were told "You wouldn't know the the voice how…
April 03, 1989
Fiction
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News of the World [ABSTRACT]
- Frank Borden pursues & reports sensational stories from Europe for a tabloid newspaper. From time to time he receives dispatches from home--letters from his son, his ex-wife's lawyers. One day when his mother-in-law calls to tell him that his beloved dog Raoul Duke has died, he…
August 05, 1985
Jazz
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JAZZ STILL THERE [ABSTRACT]
- Singer Peggy Lee is playing an engagement at the Ballroom on West 28th Street. Her real name is Norma Deloris Egstrom; she is from Jamestown, North Dakota, and was hired as Peggy Lee by Benny Goodman in the summer of 1941 at age 19. Tells what was said about her…
