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Born. To Mrs. Ambrose Harrison of Toronto: a son, her 14th child, her 8th since 1926, when Charles Millar died bequeathing some $500,000 to that Toronto woman who should bear the most children in the ensuing decade. Still in the lead in this babe-stakes are Mrs. Frances Lillian Kenny (eleven), Mrs. Grace Bagnato (nine) (TIME...
...Swensson, 76, who with her late husband founded the Lindsborg festivals 54 years ago. Alma Swensson was 22 when she sent East for copies of Messiah, corralled a few eager pupils and taught them the great oratorio measure by measure. When her festivals were 27 years old the great Lillian Nordica was a soloist and in Lindsborg that occasion has become legendary. The enchanted choristers pulled her carriage through the streets, received in return roses from her bouquet. One youth planted his bloom and it managed to take root, yielded for years the "Nordica rose." In Lindsborg Nordica roses...
Thus went Nordica's life-from a heyday that was richly spectacular to an ending deeply pathetic. She was born plain Lillian Norton in Farmington, Me. She sang in church choirs in Boston, toured with a brass band until she could afford to study opera in Italy. Like Lilli Lehmann, she began with light florid roles, won great success. But her ambition soared higher. She went to Bayreuth, worked with Wagner's widow, became a finished Wagnerian. As a prima donna at the Metropolitan Opera she conducted herself royally. For her audiences she had unfailing charm; for herself...
...Weigh House Chapel in London where she and George Young were married. Her casket was a teakwood trunk, carved to represent a lotus, the flower that she loved best. On his return to Manhattan, George Young walked down the gangplank bearing a box under either arm. One contained Lillian Nordica's jewels, the other her ashes...
...Toronto, Mrs. Frances Lillian Kenny, 31, mother of 14, hopes to win $500,000 by bearing twins this year, and thus becoming beyond compare Toronto's most prolific woman (TIME...