Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1929, Page 6

[ THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MAYT T, 1 LEHMANN, 81, OPERA STAR | fined her engagements to European mu- sical centers, but returned to the Unit- | of beauty and immense volume. e States for concert work in tan. She made her last appearance | her repertoire including 168 operas. Few | to 1897 | prima_donnas have studied as many great understanding of me.” and later again joined the Metropoli- |roles as Lehmann knew in her time, thank them ‘ll into & full-toned dramatic soprano|I realize that I shall never be lble;Ten!. No. 2, at a meeting yesterday at sufficiently for their | 623 Louisiana avenue The resolution, which urged that the lives of law enforcement officers and other law-abiding citizens receive first consideration and that less sympathy done by banding birds which have been trapped for the purpss: and taca rdleasing them. Tracing the airways of the birds by means of numibered leg bands has become an avocation for DES MOINES SCHO0L L | Although she had sung in many more than 1400 well informed ama- teurs operating under the direction o the United States Bureau of Biologiral OF 25 YEARS AGO, EXPIRES utstanding singers of heroine roles of | Wagnerian opera | A concert tour cduring the sc: Frau Lelimann made her debut with | 1901-02 marked the final singing en- the Metropolitan Opera Co. in New = . Lehmann in the York November 25. 1885, singing the did nct visit this title role in “Carmen.” She concluded that, but for several | in March, 189. countries and before numerous crowned jet Y | be lavished upon rum-runners and other : 5 rcads, the famous soprano always re- | % |law violators, was ordered sent to pro- Concert Tour in 1901-02. | counted her years in America with | Rechabites Deplore Death of Dry | hibition officials of the Tre ; ason of much pleasure. In her autobiography i partment and Maj. Henry V. About 45,000 birds, repre- che devoted many pages to her Ameri-| Agentian Autoscramh; | superintendent of the Police Depart- T 437 North American specics, can experiences. A resolution deploring the death of | ment. have been marked with bands and re- “How can I put into words all that | Prohibition Agent Dano M. Jackley on turns from about 25,000 have been re- was shown me in America in the Way | the morning of May 14 from injuries ceved a tabulated. ~These return in opera in New York in "Tnnnhfluser"[ FIGHT STILL RAGES -....:sc5- PENTN. May 17.—Lilli Lehmann,:fa g | mou: opera singer, cied today at the cze of 81. During the last guarter of the nine- Birds Revealing Secrets. e ST ’d het Baptist Convention Starts Final Sessions With iio Sign of Amity. By the Associated P BUFFALO, Follow- ing a day of stormy of the Baptist Bible Union Convention, the op- posing in the Dos Moines versity controversy sppeared far reement as the final day's se poned. Dean Earl Callaway May 17 ions forces m ions nd Rev. Minor fons of Pres- entire facuity, turn to Des M the war in: Last night Dr. ' h-ad_and president of the union, de- clared his determination to carry on thr £ehool and made a plea for $10,000 from the delegates. way and the Rev. Stevons in a hotel hore and Miss Edith with to continue ces. jelds. trustee ating charged Dr. § Rebman. sec interference in school affairs Deplores “Loss” of Standing. At the afternoon session Callawav deplored the fact that the school would demic standing by the trustees’ he had finished he rd by Dr. Shields in the spreading of rumors ng the pel 1 rity of hields and Miss Rebman, e head was applauded by the delezates, and a motion was made to appoint a committee to once draw up a_resolution exonerating in his conduct of school affairs, Dean Refuses to Apologize. ary of th the admini: he tri more him A demand made by Dr. Shields that | Callaway apologize publicly to him was not met by the dean, who left the plat- form declaring he “refused to be fur- ther browbeaten or spat upon.” Dr. Shields’ request for funds to carry on the school resulted in but a quarter of the $10.000 being subscribed. WE PAY teenth century she was one of the m Jl“’\"‘l’f!ll operatic magnets of two cor | nents. She an cutstanding star in years | when the musical drama stage Loasted | of such great artists as Lillian Nordica, Minnie Hauk, Marcella Sembrich, Emma Fames and Emma Juch among prima donnas. She continued her active asso. clation with it while her physical and vocal powers endured, which was until after she became an octogenarian. On her eightieth birthday anniversary world attention was again directed to her great carcer. She had disappeared from the public eye since she responded to h t curtzin call more than 2 vears before, and was all but forgotten. Her arrival at the fourscore-year post of life not only recalled Frau Leh- mann's American and European tri- umphs of bygone vears. but disclosed that she was continuing her musical . It never had been interrupted n she hod made her last public ap- pearance she turned from the stage to the studio and there, just as conscien- tiously as she had devoted herself to her numezrous roles, she sought to train voung singers to maintain the high Standard of opera she knew. | Native of Germarn | Frou Lehmann was born at Wurz- | burg. Germany, November 24, 1848. Her mother was Marie Lehmann, a harpist of note and & prima donna who Wwas the original heroine of some of the operas of the famous composer Spohr. Lilli was taught singing and music by | at | nd made her debut » was 20 years old he ¥ ared at Danzlg_and Leipsic. Her first appearance at Berlin was in Aug t, 1870, as Viclka in Mey- erbeer’s “Feldlager in Schlesien,” sing- ing with such success that she was en- gaged there as a light soprano, remain- ing until 1885. 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