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...vast Keith-Albee Hippodrome in uptown Manhattan. Adequately clothed, she sang briefly and badly in a vaudeville act, introduced by a sleek whippersnapper. To a few newsgatherers in her dressing room, Mrs. Browning talked intelligently, familiarly; referred to her onetime husband as impersonally as to a street car conductor. "What's the old man doing now?" queried she. He has be-become comparatively obscure, has attempted to contribute to the letter columns of various dailies. But she has been traveling the "big time" vaudeville circuit, from coast to coast, during the last year...
...Canadian living in New York I got a big kick out of your timely appreciation of Conductor Wilfred Pelletier's success with Soprano Jeritza in "Carmen" in Philadelphia. As a TIMEkeeper, I am loyal enough to be puffed up that TIME is the first newspaper to give Canadian Pelletier the praise he has long deserved. . . . He began his musical career by playing in a small movie house in Montreal...
Credit goes in part to the German-singers now at the Metropolitan, to Conductor Artur Bodanzky who holds tight reins over them all. There is Maria Jeritza who gave last week her most gracious performance of the season as Elizabeth (Tannhäuser), whose Elsa (Lohengrin) and Sieglinde (Walküre) are compelling flesh-and-blood women worthy of the music given them to sing. There is Karin Branzell, worthy successor to Schumann-Heink as Erda (Rheingold and Siegfried), Fricka (Walküre), Waltraute (Götterdämmerung), Brangaene ( Tristan), Baritone Friedrich Schorr vocally unequalled as Wolfram (Tannh...
Henry Weber, conductor of the Chicago Civic Opera Company, who incidentally, said that he was the only American-born conductor in the particular field of opera, paced up and down his room in the Ritz Carlton yesterday, as he pointed out the difference between audiences on the two continents...
Married. Ely Ney, famed pianist, onetime wife of Conductor Willem Van Hoogstraten; to Coal Dealer Paul Allais, of Chicago; in Los Angeles...