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Rose Bampton, listed at the Metropolitan as a contralto, always sang contralto or mezzo roles there. Touring Europe this autumn, she won fame in 14 cities as a dramatic soprano, made her U. S. soprano debut last week in St. Louis...
...Orchestra. For two hours, supported by the orchestra, the newcomers tooted saxophones, snorted through trombones, rattled wind machines, picked guitars, shrilled police whistles, thumped tom-toms, pumped accordions, wailed on bagpipes, clicked typewriters, crashed dishes, rang alarm bells and discharged revolvers to make memorable Paul Whiteman's winter debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra...
...loud passages by blaring through his microphone. Dark, good-looking, 28, Mr. Middleton studied music at Juilliard for four years against the wishes of his father, a member of the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. He took a nonsinging role in Roberta for two years, made his baritone debut last summer singing Gilbert & Sullivan in St. Louis and Central City, Colo. To replace Baritone Julius Huehn, he went to Chicago fortnight ago to sing star parts in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Gruenberg's Jack & the Beanstalk, was engaged to repeat the performance. The latter role requires...
Died. Mme Ernestine Schumann-Heink, 75, famed Austrian-born contralto; of hemorrhage of the throat and lungs, after leukemia; in Hollywood. Daughter of a Major in the Imperial Army, she sang in her first public concert at Graz at 15, earned $6. In 1878 she won a debut and a four-year contract at Dresden, was chosen by Cosima Wagner to sing at Bayreuth before she was brought to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company in 1898. During the War her son August died as a German sailor, her sons Henry and George Washington enlisted with the U. S. Navy...
...West Young Man (Paramount). When Mae West made her cinema debut in 1932 (Night After Night), wiseacres predicted her career would be short-lived. When she became a star (1933), critics considered her a fad. When the Legion of Decency was formed (1934), Mae West seemed its most likely victim. Currently, though she slipped from fifth to eleventh in Motion Picture Herald's star-rating, Mae West is still one of Hollywood's highest paid ($150,000 per picture) celebrities, unique in two respects: 1) She writes her own scripts. 2) While other producers are trying...