18.1. cylinders, ed. discs, pathes, pp 7-22 armenian baritone active in the u.s. during the 1910-25...

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VOCAL CYLINDERS 2M WA = 2-minute wax, 4M WA= 4-minute wax, 4M BA = Edison Blue Amberol,

OBT = original box and top, OP = original descriptive pamphlet. Repro B/T = Fine quality reproduction Edison orange box and printed top. All others in clean,

used boxes (possible lt. wear). Any mold on wax cylinders is always described. All grading is visual and refers to the cylinders rather than the boxes. Any major box problems are

noted.

CARLO ALBANI [t] 1037. Edison BA 28127. AFRICAINE: O paradiso (Meyerbeer). Repro B/T. Just about

1-2. $30.00.

1032. Edison BA 28141. LA FORZA DEL DESTINO: O tu che seno agli’ angeli (Verdi). Repro B/T. Just about 1-2. $30.00.

PAUL ALTHOUSE [t] 1041. Edison BA 28209. BEFORE THE DAWN (George Chadwick). Repro B/T. Just

about 1-2. $12.00.

BLANCHE ARRAL [s] 1007. Edison BA 28125. MIGNON: Polonaise (Thomas). OBT. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

DAN BEDDOE [t] 1018. Edison BA 28203. IL TROVATORE: Se m’ami … Ai nostri monti (Verdi). In English.

With MARGARET KEYES [c]. Repro B/T. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

ALESSANDRO BONCI [t] 1027. Edison BA 29004. LUCIA: Fra poco a me ricovero

(Donizetti). Just about 1-2. $25.00.

LUCREZIA BORI [s] 1040. Edison BA 28122. LA BOHÈME: Mi chiamano

Mimì (Puccini). Repro B/T. Cons. 2. $25.00.

FLORENCIO CONSTANTINO [t] 1031. Edison Wax Amb. B163. ROMÉO ET JULIETTE:

Ah, lève-toi soleil (Gounod). Announced by Constantino. In French. OBT. Just about 1-2. $35.00.

1009. Edison BA 28161. AIDA: Se quel guerrier … Celeste Aida (Verdi). Announced by Constantino. OBT. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

ERNESTO CARONNA [b] 1035. Edison BA 28130. UN BALLO IN MASCHERA: Eri

tu (Verdi). Repro B/T. Small outside rim split not to grooves, otherwise just about 1-2. $12.00.

PETER DAWSON [bs-b] 1001. Edison BA 23065. CARMEN: Toreador Song (Bizet). In English. OBT. Just about

1-2. $10.00.

MARIE DELNA [c] 1023. Edison BA 27126 [take 1]. LE PROPHÈTE: Ah, mon fils (Meyerbeer). OBT. Just

about 1-2. $20.00. 1036. Edison BA 28126 [take 1]. Same as preceding listing but Repro B/T. Just about

1-2. $20.00.

1008. Edison BA 28135 [take 1]. ORFEO ED EURIDICE: Che farò senza Euridice (Gluck). OBT. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

1022. Edison BA 28135 [take 2]. Same as preceding listing but different take and Repro B/T. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

YVONNE DE TRÉVILLE [s] 1028. Edison BA 28248. MANON LESCAUT: L’éclat de rire (Auber). Repro B/T. Trans.

from otherwise unpublished Diamond-Disc. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

CARLO GALEFFI [b] 1034. Edison BA 28115. LA TRAVIATA: Di Provenza (Verdi). Repro B/T. Just about 1-2.

$20.00.

ERNESTO CARONNA

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Vocal CYLINDERS

MARIA GALVANY [s] 1012. Edison BA 28123. LA SONNAMBULA: Come per me sereno … Sovra il sen (Bellini).

OBT. Minor top wear. Cylinder just about 1-2. $50.00.

CHARLES HACKETT [t] 1011. Edison BA 28155. MARTHA: Lost, Proscribed (Flotow). With THOMAS CHALMERS

[b]. With OBT, OP. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

CHARLES W. HARRISON [t] 1000. Edison BA 2184. LA BOHÈME: Che gelida manina (Puccini). In English. OBT. Just

about 1-2. $8.00.

ORVILLE HARROLD [t] 1033. Edison BA 28129. MARY [KIND AND GENTLE

IS SHE] (Richardson). Repro B/T. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

AGNES KIMBALL [s] 1010. Edison BA 1502. FAUST: Final Scene

through Trio (Gounod). In English. With REED MILLER [t], FRANK CROXTON [bs]. OBT. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

SELMA KURZ [s] 1013. Edison BA 28133. RIGOLETTO: Caro nome

(Verdi). Repro B/T. Minor chipping of plaster at end (harmless), otherwise just about 1-2. $15.00.

1017. Edison BA 28133. Same as preceding item (#1013). Later “pressing”. Repro B/T. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

1030. Edison BA 28147. IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA: Una voce poco fa (Rossini). In Italian. OBT. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

RICCARDO MARTIN [t]. Hopkinsville, KY, 1874-New York City, 1953.

1024. Edison BA 28113. IL TROVATORE: Ah si, ben mio (Verdi). Repro B/T. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

1025. Edison BA 28158. CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Preludio e Siciliana (Mascagni). OBT. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

1039. Edison BA 28167. GOOD BYE (Tosti). OBT. OB (minor tears). Just about 1-2. $20.00.

CHRISTINE MILLER [c] 1004. Edison BA 28172. GOOD BYE, SWEET DAY (Vannah). OBT. OP. Just about 1-2.

$8.00. 1005. Edison BA 28194. THE LAWN SWING (Tolman). With Chorus. OBT. OP. Just

about 1-2. $8.00.

GIOVANNI POLESE [b] 1020. Edison BA 28118. THAÏS: Alessandria! (Massenet). Repro B/T. Just about 1-2.

$25.00. 1026. Edison BA 28160. PEARL FISHERS: Aria di Nadir (Bizet). Repro B/T. Just about

1-2. $25.00.

MARIE RAPPOLD [s] 1021. Edison BA 28101. TALES OF HOFFMANN: Barcarolle (Offenbach). With THOMAS

CHALMERS [b]. OBT. Just about 1-2. $6.00.

HENRI SCOTT [bs] 1029. Edison BA 28274. ON THE ROAD TO MANDALAY (Kipling-Speaks). Repro B/T.

Just about 1-2. $8.00.

MAGGIE TEYTE [s] 1042. Edison BA 4797. INDIAN LOVE LYRICS: Pale Hands I Love (Woodforde-Finden).

Repro B/T. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

SELMA KURZ as Lakmé

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VOCAL, INST. and PERSONALITY CYLINDERS; DIAMOND-DISCS

ANTON VAN ROOY [b] 1038. Edison 2-M Wax B-10. CARMEN: Chanson du Toréador (Bizet). In French. In

regular Gold-Moulded box/top. Just about 1-2. $40.00.

Instrumental CYLINDERS HOFFMANN STRING QUARTET 1003. Edison BA 28168. STRING QUARTET, Op. 11: Andante cantabile (Tschaikowsky).

OBT. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

ALBERT SPALDING [violinist] 1002. Edison BA 28102. THAÏS: Méditation (Massenet). Piano acc. André Benoist. OBT.

Just about 1-2. $12.00.

ARMAND VECSEY and HIS HUNGARIAN ORCHESTRA 1006. Edison BA 28181. COPPÉLIA: Entr’Acte and Waltz (Delibes). OBT. Just about 1-2.

$12.00.

Personality CYLINDERS POLK MILLER’S OLD SOUTH QUARTET [entertainers]. Prince Edward County, VA, 1844-Richmond, VA, 1913. Miller learned to play the banjo from slaves on his father’s plan- tation. His original career was as a druggist, beginning in 1860. During the Civil War, he served as a Confederate artilleryman. Known from his earliest years as a talented entertainer and musician, he began performing professionally in 1892. He was white and was assisted by a backup group of four African-American male singers, called the Old South Quartet. They toured both the north and south of the U.S., with enthusiastic reception by their audiences as well as occasional problems with racial discrimination. 1016. Edison BA 2176. LAUGHING SONG (Trad.). OBT. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

1014. Edison BA 2177. WHAT A TIME (Trad.) Repro B/T. Very small (harmless) plaster chip end side, otherwise just about 1-2. $12.00.

1015. Edison BA 2178. WATERMELON PARTY (Trad.). Repro B/T. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT [U.S. President]. 1019. Edison BA 3709. SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL JUSTICE (Speech). OBT (top some-

what worn). Includes original text sheet. Just about 1-2. $35.00.

EDISON DIAMOND-DISCS SS=early “smooth surface” (laminated “etched” label area, 1912-1915); RC= “Edison Re-Creation” Paper Label (1921-1924); ER= “Edison Record” Paper Label (1924-1929). All others (1915-1920) have various forms of “etched” black centers. All explanatory talks are by Harry E. Humphrey unless specifically identified as John Charles Thomas (who recorded a few in 1914, just as his singing career was developing).

Edison discs pick up marks and rubs easily, so unless really extraordinary, top copies will probably be graded “cons. 2”. There should be no difference in sound between records graded “just about 1-2” and those “2”, as well as any with “superficial” connected to the grading. The same applies to all the other recordings listed in this catalogue.

As Edison often issued multiple takes (the letters following the matrix numbers indicate the take), collectors may find comparisons of these interesting. Sometimes the different takes were made during the same session, but other times there could be months or even years separating them. Likewise the takes can be remarkably similar or noticeably different. It’s often possible to observe physically, in comparing multiple takes, that one might be shorter than another.

Vocal EDISON DIAMOND-DISCS

PAUL ALTHOUSE [t] 1078. RC 82306 [3092-A/8435-B]. DREAM FACES (Hutchinsen) / CAROLINA LAZZARI

[c]. SOME DAY I’LL WANDER BACK AGAIN (Huntley). Cons. 2. $12.00.

GIUSEPPE ANSELMI [t]. 1132. SS 83004 [1373-A/2710-B]. LA GIOCONDA: Cielo e mar (Ponchielli) / EXPLANA-

TORY TALK. Side one just about 1-2. Side two cons. 2. $15.00.

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1133. RC 83004 [1373-B/2710-A]. Same as preceding listing but different takes both sides. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

1082. SS 83015 [1378-A]. MIGNON: Ah, non credivi tu (Thomas). Early single-sided edition. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

1051. RC 83015 [1378-B/2555-A]. Same as preceding listing but different take side one. Cons. 2. $15.00.

1085. RC 83018 [1377-B/2699-A]. LUCIA: Tu che a Dio spiegasti l’ali (Donizetti) / EXPLANATORY TALK. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

DAN BEDDOE [t] 1096. SS 80210 [3197-B/3290-B]. A DREAM (Bart-

lett) / ELISABETH SPENCER [s]. I HEAR YOU CALLING ME (Marshall). This rarity, Beddoe’s only published Edison disc, was issued in 1915 and deleted less than a year later, remade at that time by tenor Hardy Williamson. Just about 1-2. $35.00.

TORCOM BÉZAZIAN [b]. An Armenian baritone active in the U.S. during the 1910-25 period, he recorded primarily French operatic arias and Armenian songs for Columbia, Victor and Edison Discs. He was married to trumpeter Edna White in 1923, with whom he had previously toured in vaudeville. While theirs was a happy marriage, they parted company when Bezazian decided to return to Europe to find work. His wife’s established career was here, so she chose to remain.

1137. ER 74015 [7130-C/7140-A]. LES CENT VIERGES: Il n’est pas de bonheur loin de toi (Lecocq) / AIMONS-NOUS (Saint-Saëns). Few lt. rubs, cons. 2. $12.00

1114. ER 82203 [7268-A/5332-A]. HAMLET: Chanson Bachique (Thomas) / GUIDO CICCOLINI [t], ARTHUR MIDDLETON [bs-b]. PEARL FISHERS: Del tempio al limitar (Bizet). Side one cons. 2. Side two lt. rubs, gen. 2. $8.00.

ALESSANDRO BONCI [t]. 1081. SS 83012 [2279-A/2550-B]. LUCIA: Fra poco a me ricovero (Donizetti) / EXPLANA-

TORY TALK. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

1131. ER 83012 [2279-B/3337-C]. Same as preceding item except different take side one and different matrix number and take side two. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

CELESTINA BONINSEGNA [s] 1119. SS 82035 [632-B/864-?]. IL TROVATORE: Tacea la notte placida (Verdi) / MARIA

LABIA [s]. PAGLIACCI: Stridono lassù (Leoncavallo). Side one cons. 2. Side two lam. crk. through grooves. Gen. 2-3. $125.00.

LUCREZIA BORI [s] 1088. RC 82517 [2226-A/2700-A]. ROMÉO ET JULIETTE: Je veux vivre (Gounod) / EX-

PLANATORY TALK. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

1064. SS 82526 [2217-B/2739-B]. MARRIAGE OF FIGARO: Voi che sapete (Mozart) / EX-PLANATORY TALK. Lam. crk. side two from spindle hole to last 8th inch of grooves. Lt. mks., 2. $10.00.

1146. RC 82526 [2217-B/2739-A]. Same as preceding listing but later paper lbl. pressing. Cons. 2. $15.00.

1063. SS 82528 [2228-B/3127-B]. GUARDAMI [VALSER CANTABILE] (Guagni-Benvenuti) / EXPLANATORY TALK. Cons. 2. $15.00.

ERNESTO CARONNA [b] 1156. ER 60024 [6392-A/6400-B]. LA TEMPESTAD: Monólogo (Chapì) / EL CANTO DEL

PRESIDIARIO (Alvarez). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

ANNA CASE [s] 1065. ER 82078 [3796-L/2720-B]. LA PERLE DU BRÉSIL: Charmant oiseau (David) /

EXPLANATORY TALK. Cons. 2. $8.00.

CÉLINE CHAIS (SHEA)-BONHEUR [c] 1054. ER 80763 [4343-C/4379-A]. MIGNON: Connais-tu le pays (Thomas) / LA FAVORI-

TA: Ah! mon Fernand (Donizetti). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

DAN BEDDOE in the 1930s

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THOMAS CHALMERS [b] 1072. RC 80705 [4902-A/6940-B]. DORMI

PURE (Scuderi) / VIRGINIA REA [s]. LA CAPINERA (Benedict). Label autographed by Chalmers. Few lightest rubs, cons. 2. $15.00.

GUIDO CICCOLINI [t]. See: JULIA HEINRICH [s]

1126. RC 82541 [3943-A/4141-B]. IL TRO-VATORE: Ai nostri monti (Verdi). With GUIDO CICCOLINI [t] / JOHN CHARLES THOMAS [speaker]. EX-PLANATORY TALK. Label credits the speaker, in error, as Harry Hum-phrey. Thomas’s pronunciation of some words indicates he had not yet mastered Italian. For example, Il Trovatore is repeatedly “Ill TRA-ve-tor-ry” and Guido becomes “GEE-do”. Just about 1-2. $20.00

MARIE DELNA [c] 1083. SS 83019 [2762-A/3024-B]. LE PRO-

PHÈTE: Ah! mon fils (Meyerbeer) / EXPLANATORY TALK. IMs. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

1084. RC 83019 [2762-A/3024-B. Same as preceding item (#1083). Later paper label pressing. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

1129. SS 83024 [2766-B/2796-B]. SAMSON ET DALILA: Mon coeur (Saint-Saëns) / EXPLANATORY TALK. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

1113. SS 83036 [2763-A/2999-B]. JOCELYN: Ber-ceuse (Godard) / EXPLANATORY TALK. Slightest (harmless) rim curl. Cons. 2. $15.00

ELEONORA DE CISNEROS [c]. Collectors are referred to the excellent biography and discography of this important artist in The Record Collector magazine, Vol. 60, No. 3 (Sept., 2015).

1121. SS 82020 [605-?/1266-?]. BELIEVE ME IF ALL THOSE ENDEARING YOUNG CHARMS (Moore) / THOMAS CHALMERS [b]. MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME (Foster). Prior to the addition of take letters. Very rare issue. Side one tiny rim patina, otherwise cons. 2. Side two a few lt. rubs, gen. 2. $35.00.

1140. SS 82520 [2211-?]. CARMEN: All’udir del sistro il suon (Bizet). Early single-sided pressing. Just about 1-2. $50.00.

1141. SS 82521 [2212-B/2552-B]. SEMIRAMIDE: Ah! quel giorno (Rossini) / EXPLANATORY TALK. Wonderful performance. These De Cisneros operatic rarities were all deleted in 1916. Just about 1-2. $60.00.

1142. SS 82522 [2126-A]. HUGUENOTS: Nobil Signori, salute! (Meyerbeer). Early single-sided pressing. Just about 1-2. $50.00.

1143. SS 82523 [2128-A]. IL TROVATORE: Stride la vampa (Verdi). Early single-sided pressing. One small harmless rim lam. grooved side, few lams. blank side near edge. 2. $40.00.

MARIE DELNA

ELEONORA DE CISNEROS

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LORETTA DEL VALLE (TANNERT) [s]. Orange, NJ, 1884 - ? . Several sources give her birthdate as 11 May, 1884 in Orange, NJ, her family name having been Wethling. She wed one Alfred Paul Tannert in Orange in 1897, which, assuming this to be the correct date, puts her birth year into question! At an undiscovered later date, as Loretta (sometimes given as Loretto) Tannert, she left to study voice in Paris with Mathilde Marchesi. Returning to the U.S. around 1904, she was a member of the Metropolitan Opera Company the season of 1905-06, although the printed Annals of the Metropolitan Opera lists her as “Louetta” Tannert. Leaving Mr. Tannert again (he was a woolen importer in NYC), she left for Germany in 1907 and studied with Reuss-Belce in Dresden and Joseph Trummer in Graz. Under the sponsorship of impresario Angelo Neumann (she considered herself his protégé), Tannert made an unexpected debut as the “Queen of the Night” in a 1909 Prague presentation of The Magic Flute conducted by Artur Bodansky when the scheduled soprano became ill the day prior to the performance. Prior to this, Mrs. Tannert had never appeared in opera (her Met experience had been in one Sunday night concert) and was provided no orchestral or stage rehearsal. Also, the orchestration used for the Queen’s “Der Hölle Rache” was down a third from score pitch (the scheduled Queen’s preferred key). Still, she had a success and subsequently appeared in other operas there as well as in Cassel, Frankfort, Dresden, Mannheim and London. She returned to the U.S. at the outbreak of the First World War. In the meantime (1912). Mr. Tannert, who was going blind, “shot and killed himself when [crossing] Central Park in a taxi cab.” Articles regarding his death state that Mr. Tannert had “come here from Germany with his wife 27 years ago”. Another mystery, as the wedding was in 1897 in New Jersey. Had they actually been married 27 years prior to his death, Mrs. Tannert (going by that questionable birth date) would have been one year old. Upon her return to the U.S. in 1914, Mrs. Tannert was known as Loretta del Vallé (the accent most often omitted), with no information as to who “del Vallé” might have been. She secured a long term engagement (apparently 1914-1917) as an assisting artist to violinist Albert Spalding in multiple U.S. and Central American concert tours. What happened to her subsequently seems not to be known other than that in 1921 she underwent bankruptcy proceedings. Her only issued recording was a single disc (below) for Edison, recorded in 1915 but not released until late 1922.

1053. RC 82279 [4155-H/5529-A]. MAGIC FLUTE: Der Hölle Rache (Mozart) / MARIE RAPPOLD [s], JACQUES URLUS [t]. TANNHÄUSER: Gepriesen sei die Stunde (Wagner). Lt. lbl. wear near center holes. Surfaces cons. 2. $25.00.

EMMY DESTINN [s]. 1145. SS 88525 [889-A]. LA GIOCONDA: Suicidio! (Ponchielli). Early single-sided issue.

Small center sticker. Couple harmless lt. rim patinas side one. One lt. patina near edge on blank side. Just about 1-2. $25.00.

1144. SS 88525 [889-B/2724-B]. LA GIOCONDA: Suicidio! (Ponchielli) / EXPLANATORY TALK. Harmless patina in spindle hole area side one, slightest rim separation, both harmless. Otherwise just about 1-2. Side two (Explanatory Talk) has some scratches and wear, 4. $20.00.

1055. SS 82527 [890-C/2718-B]. MADAMA BUTTERFLY: Un bel di (Puccini) / EXPLANA-TORY TALK. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

1050. SS 82527 [890-C/2718-B]. Same as preceding listing. Pressure crks. side two only on rim and one covering two-thirds of grooves. Side one cons. 2. $12.00.

1147. ER 82527 [890-C/3508-B]. Same as preceding two listings but late paper lbl. pressing. Different matrix number and take for the Explanatory Talk. Minor lbl. tear near rim side one, otherwise just about 1-2. $20.00.

1124. ER 82531 [891-A/2716-F]. TOSCA: Vissi d’arte (Puccini) / EXPLANATORY TALK. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

1125. ER 82531 [891-B/2716-F]. Same as preceding listing but different take side one. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

YVONNE DE TRÉVILLE [s] 1095. 80296 [4161-F/4275-B]. CHANSON PROVENÇALE (dell’Acqua) / T. FOSTER WHY

[bs]. QUEEN OF SHEBA: Sous les pieds d’une femme (Gounod). Just about 1-2. $12.00.

LORETTA (TANNERT) DEL VALLÉ

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MARIA DUCHÈNE [c] 1059. ER 80766 [2682-B/2683-A]. LE PROPHÈTE: Ah! mon fils (Meyerbeer) / IL TROVA-

TORE: Stride la vampa (Verdi). Cons. 2. $15.00.

PAUL DUFAULT [t]. Ste-Hélène-de-Bagot, near St-Hyacintye, Québec, 1872-1930. A stu-dent at the Séminaire de Nicolet, Dufault studied music in Montréal and later in Boston and Worcester (MA), as well as in Paris with Hector Dupeyron. He was active professionally by 1897, apparently first in New York and by 1903 in Canada, where in 1903 he appeared with the Quebec Symphony Orchestra. His career was mostly on the concert stage and occasionally as a soloist in oratorio and with various orchestras. In Canada, 1920, he gave a concert tour of over 200 locations, ranging from principal cities to small villages. The New York Times, in 1911, reviewing a recital, noted that matters of “diction, style, phrasing [and] interpretation” were “much to his credit”.

1127. ER 74009 [7554-B/7556-C]. L’ANNEAU D’ARGENT (Chaminade) / CHANSON DE LA GLU (Gounod). Fine late pressing. Few superficial (i.e. harmless) rubs, 2. $12.00.

CHARLES HACKETT [t]. 1136. SS 80007 [985-?/569-?]. SWEET GENEVIEVE (Tucker) / METROPOLITAN QUAR-

TET. DARLING NELLIE GRAY (Hanby). Side one rim crks., one just into grooves, otherwise 2. Side two one chip in about an 8th of an inch, two patinas in about ½”, otherwise gen. 2. $25.00.

ORVILLE HARROLD [t] 1159. SS 80067 [1283-A?/2034-A?]. MARTHA: M’appari (Flotow) / AGNES KIMBALL [s],

THOMAS CHALMERS [b]. IL TROVATORE: Vivrà! Contende il giubilo (Verdi). Both in English. Rare short-lived issue. There are two issued takes of side one. These early pressings do not include the take letters. Another pressing of side one I checked with a “B” take differs from this, so I presume this to be an “A”. Very lt. mks., cons. 2. $20.00.

CHARLES HART [t]. Chicago, 1884 - New Jersey, 1965. The fascinating story of Charles Hart’s life is told by the tenor himself in Hobbies Magazine (Dec., 1958-Jan. 1959). His parents were German and his father a “drunkard” who abandoned the family when Charles was four. Subsequently he had to add to his family income by taking part-time jobs such as selling newspapers (beginning at the age of seven), mowing lawns, and later even working as a cowboy and an elevator operator. He learned to read music as a high school student while singing in a church choir in Evanston, IL, and entered the Chicago Musical College for at least a year, studying fencing, acting and singing. Here he first appeared on the stage, 1902, as Dancairo in Carmen. As a performer, Hart’s experiences ran from singing song slides in silent movie theaters through the leading tenor role at the Chicago Opera, 1923, in Humperdinck’s Konigskinder with Claire Dux and Alexander Kipnis. He also appeared on Broadway in various musicals, including The Spring Maid with Christie MacDonald, 1912-13, and in 1925 The Student Prince, singing the role of Dr. Engel. His work in oratorio at various choral festivals added considerably to his income and he was also heard with various smaller U.S. opera companies. During the late ‘20s and early ‘30s he and his family resided in Germany, where Hart recorded for Electrola and sang on the radio, but he didn’t find National Socialism and Hitler to his liking. Returning to the U.S., Hart appeared with various smaller opera companies in the New York area. His numerous operatic roles included Don José, which hehad mastered and performed in four languages. His U.S. recording career, from 1915 through at least 1930, included participation in various Victor and Edison house ensembles. Only Edison recognized his more serious musical side, recording him in operatic and oratorio selections. Following his years in opera, he appeared in the 1940s and ‘50s on Broadway in smaller dramatic roles and occasional musicals.

1086. ER 80774 [9285-B/9286-B]. AÏDA: Celeste Aïda (Verdi) / L’AFRICAINE: O Paradies (Meyerbeer). Both in English. Just about 1-2. $8.00.

JULIA HEINRICH [s] 1056. RC 83067 [5212-C/5204-C]. PEER GYNT: Solvejg’s Song (Grieg) / ARTHUR MID-

DLETON [bs-b]. YOUNG TOM O’DEVON (Kennedy Russell). IMs. Just about 1-2. $7.00.

FRIEDA HEMPEL [s] 1110. ER 82229 [7712-A/7736-B]. NORMA: Casta diva (Bellini) / DON GIOVANNI: Non

mi dir (Mozart). Just about 1-2. $12.00. 1111. ER 82229 [7712-B/7736-C]. Same as preceding listing but different takes both

sides. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

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1071. RC 82251 [6214-L/7902-C]. DINORAH: Ombra leggiera (Meyerbeer) / ANDREA CHENIER: Nemico della patria? (Giordano). Cons. 2. $10.00.

1134. ER 82562 [6223-H/4770-C]. LITTLE ALABAMA COON (Hattie Starr) / ARTHUR MIDDLETON [bs]. FATHER O’FLYNN (arr. Villiers-Stanford). Side one just about 1-2. Side two one small (harmless) mk., few lt. rubs, cons. 2. $10.00.

1068. ER 82563 [6628-B/4593-A]. CRISPINO E LA COMARE: Io non son più l’Annetta (fratelli Ricci) / KARL JÖRN [t], ARTHUR MIDDLETON [bs]. MARTHA: Solo, profugo (Flotow). IMs. Cons. 2. $12.00.

HEINRICH HENSEL [t]. See: HEINRICH KNOTE [t]

KARL JÖRN [t]. See ELISABETH SCHUMANN [s]

AGNES KIMBALL [s] 1080. SS 80061 [1326-B/1098-B]. THE KISS [IL BACIO] (Arditi) / ELISABETH SPENCER

[s]. SILVER THREADS AMONG THE GOLD (Danks). Kimball’s recording was soon discontinued and replaced by Mary Carson’s version. Cons. 2. $15.00.

1099. SS 88061 [1326-B/1098-B]. Same as preceding item (#1080). A couple of rim lam. crks. just to first groove side one, otherwise just about 1-2. $15.00.

1097. SS 80088 [1069-B/2009-A]. MARITANA: Recit. and Scenes That Are Brightest (Wallace) / MARIE KAISER [s], ROYAL FISH [t]. ROSES, ROSES EVERYWHERE (Trotère). Side one was soon discontinued and replaced by Clémentine de Vere’s version. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

HEINRICH KNOTE (?) [t]. Someone has penciled in the title area “Urlus” while Raymond Wile’s Edison Disc Recordings cites Heinrich Hensel as the singer. It definitely isn’t Urlus. The latter does makes sense as it is the final disc in a group of Hensel London recordings, but the voice sounds much more like Knote to me. He made a group of (unpublished) Edisons around the same period, although no CAVALLERIA appears among these recordings. At any rate it is extremely rare, having been issued in Feb., 1913 and deleted just a few months later. You, Mr. or Ms. auction winner, be the judge!

1120. SS 82016 [625-?/2004-?]. CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Siciliana (Mascagni) / REED MILLER [t]. Recit. and Ah! Moon of My Delight (Liza Lehmann). Side one in German with harp acc. Early issue prior to take letters. One tiny rim patina side one just into groove area, otherwise cons. 2. $75.00.

MARIA LABIA [s]. Verona,1880-Lake Gardia,1953. See also: CELESTINA BONINSEGNA [s] From a family of nobility and musical talent, Labia studied with her mother and made her debut in Stock- holm, 1905, as Mimi in Puccini’s La Boheme. Her two seasons in Stockholm included roles such as Carmen, Salome and Tosca. Appearances with the Manhattan Opera (1908-09), Vienna Opera (1911), La Scala (1912) and the Paris Opéra (1913) followed. Labia sang with the Berlin Komischeroper (having made a sensationally successful debut there in 1906 as Tosca). She was arrested in May of 1916, in Italy, on charges of espio-nage (spying for Germany, where she had remained a popular artist since she first sang there) and was sup-posedly held in prison for fourteen months. She was then freed and “exonerated from all suspicion, as no evidence to support the accusation was discovered.” After the War, she resumed her career and in 1919 was Giorgetta in the first Italian performance of Puc-cini’s Il Tabarro. In 1922 Labia was in the premiere of Wolf-Ferrari’s I Quattro Rusteghi, repeating her role in this opera a number of times in Italy through 1936. Going into the Second World War, she staunchly sup-ported Mussolini (perhaps remembering what happened to her during the previous War). Her elder (by ten years) sister, Fausta, had a solid career but retired in 1912 following her marriage to tenor Emilio Perea.

1122. SS 82021 [864-?/1023-?]. PAGLIACCI: Stridono lassù (Leoncavallo) / PAOLO GRUPPE [cellist]. SIMPLE AVEU (Thomé). Cons. 2. $75.00.

ORPHÉE LANGEVIN [b]. See: ALICE VERLET [s]

1077. ER 80761 [4185-B/3825-B]. TANNHÄUSER: Romance de l’Étoile (Wagner) / ANITA RIO [s]. MADAMA BUTTERFLY: Un bel di (Puccini). Few lightest rubs, cons. 2. $10.00.

MARIA LABIA

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MARIO LAURENTI [b]. See: MARIE RAPPOLD [s]

CAROLINA LAZZARI [c]. Milford, MA, 1891-Stony Creek, CT, 1946. After study in Milano at the Collegio delle Orsolino and in New York with William S. Brady, Lazzari appeared with the Chicago Opera 1917-19 and the Met 1919-20. Thomas Edison claimed that his method of scientific voice analysis discovered Lazzari in 1916. It is true that she began recording for Edison then and continued until 1921. A trial disc was made for Victor in 1925 but there were no subsequent commercial recordings. At any rate she received fine reviews for two seasons with the Chicago Opera and her one performance (Amneris in Aida) with the Met. Subsequently she toured as a solo recitalist and with Alda, Hackett and De Luca as “The Metropolitan Opera Quartet”. She

later taught. Rumor had it that her career was limited as a result of stage fright. For many years she operated a voice studio at the Metropolitan Opera House and taught for various periods such show business personalities as Betty Garrett, Dennis Day and Judy Garland.

1094. RC 80392 [5442-C/5707-B]. I AM THY HARP (R. Huntington Woodman); I LOVE YOU TRULY (Jacobs-Bond) / ODETTE LE FONTENAY [s]. I KNOW A LOVELY GARDEN (d’Hardelot); YESTERDAY AND TODAY (Charles G. Spross). IMs. Small

lbl rub. Surfaces just about 1-2. $12.00.

ODETTE LE FONTENAY [s]. See also: CAROLINA LAZZARI [c]

1074. RC 82241 [8078-A/4473-A]. RIGOLETTO: Quartet (Verdi). With ELIZABETH SPENCER [ms], MAX BLOCH [t], ARTHUR MIDDLETON [b] / MIDDLETON [b]. FALSTAFF: Quand’ ero paggio; FALSTAFF: Deh vieni alla finestra (Mozart). Minor lt. mks., 2. $12.00.

UMBERTO MACNEZ [t] 1158. SS 82513 [383-?/987-?]. CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Siciliana (Mascagni) / GIO-

VANNI POLESE [b]. LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX: Ambo nati in questa valle (Donizetti). Prior to the addition of “take” letters. Side one an internal “swish” for about a quarter inch in first third of grooves, otherwise 3. Side two 2. $20.00.

GIOVANNI MARTINELLI [t] 1112. SS 82505 [1216-?/1208-?]. TOSCA: E lucevan le stelle (Puccini) / INST. TRIO.

SWEET SPIRIT, HEAR MY PRAYER (Wallace). Early preliminary coupling. Side one cons. 2. Side two small section of rim missing to first groove, otherwise 2-3. $20.00.

1138. SS 82507 [1235-?/2007-?]. MANON LESCAUT: Donna non vidi mai (Puccini) / REED MILLER [t]. CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Siciliana (Mascagni). Martinelli’s rarest Edison. This is the only form of issue. It was available for only a few months in 1913. Raymond Wile’s Edison Disc Recordings gives the matrix number as either 1230 or 1322, neither agreeing with the number here. Just about 1-2. $75.00.

1139. SS 82515 [1229-A/1231-C]. LA BOHÈME: Che gelida manina (Puccini) / RIGO-LETTO: La donna è mobile (Verdi). Deleted by 1916. Couple rim lamination crks. side one and small indentation first ¼” or less (lt. sound possible), otherwise excellent, cons. 2. Side two just about 1-2. $40.00.

MARGARETE MATZENAUER [ms] 1070. RC 83044 [4559-B/3731-A]. SAMSON ET DALILA: Amour! viens aider ma faiblesse

(Saint-Saëns) / EXPLANATORY TALK. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

ARTHUR MIDDLETON [bs-b]. See: JULIA HEINRICH [s], FRIEDA HEMPEL [s], JACQUES URLUS [t]

1076. [as EDUARD MITTELSTADT]. ER 57024 [11743-A/11247-C]. SCHIER DREISZIG JAHRE BIST DU ALT (Mantellied) / DER GUTE KAMERAD (Folk Song). Cons. 2. $12.00.

JOSÉ MOJICA [t]. Mexico City, 1896-Lima, Peru, 1974. After study and some performance experience in Mexico, Mojica emigrated to New York, beginning life there as a dishwasher. Mojica was eventually given small roles with the Chicago Opera and he rapidly worked his way up, Interpreting roles such as Pelléas to Mary Garden’s Mélisande. In the early 1930s he became a star of Spanish language film musicals. After the death of his mother in 1940, Mojica became a Franciscian Friar in Peru, returning to the concert stage in the mid-1950s to raise money for his Order. In his last years he became completely deaf. Mojica’s first recordings were for Edison, and the tenor states in his autobiography that Edison particularly liked his recording of Espara Oteo’s Golondrina Mensajera. He quotes Edison as having told him “that he listened to this song every night before retiring.” One suspects a stretch of the truth here on the part of one or the other.

1090. ER 60047 [10399-C/10402-C]. CUAL PÁLIDA ESTRELLA (Garcia) / EL NOPAL [THE CACTUS] (Talavera). Piano acc. John F. Burckhardt. Just about 1-2. $35.00.

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1092. RC 76016 [7266-H/7274-C]. VIRGENCITA (Salvador Pérez) /AGUA QU VA RIO ABAJO (Abades). Just about 1-2. $35.00.

1152. ER 76018 [10989-A/11005-A]. GRATIA PLE-NA (Talavera) / PASAS POR EL ABISMO DE MIS TRISTEZAS (de Moral). Side one piano acc. J. Burkhardt. Just about 1-2. $35.00.

CLAUDIA MUZIO [s] 1150. ER 82223 [7610-F/7611-A]. IL TROVATORE:

D’amor sull’ ali rosee / IL TROVATORE: Ta-cea la notte (Verdi). Slight (should be harm-less) surface unevenness, few lt. rubs. Cons. 2. $12.00.

1112. RC 82223 [7610-F/7611-C]. Same as pre-ceding item but different combination of takes. Cons. 2. $12.00.

1157. RC 82223 [7610-H/7611-B]. Same as pre-ceding item but different takes both sides. Cons. 2. $12.00.

1151. ER 82223 [7610-H/7611-C. Same as pre-ceding three items but different combination of takes. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

1079. ER 82300 [8427-B/8429-A]. L’AFRICAINE: Figlio del sol (Meyerbeer) / RINALDO: Lascia ch’io pianga (Händel). Lt. rubs, 2. $10.00.

1075. ER 82320 [7933-F/9404-C]. LORELEY: Dove son? (Catalani) / VESPRI SICILIANI: Mercè, dilette amiche (Verdi). Lt. rubs. 2. $10.00.

CLAIRE LILLIAN PETELER [s]. An orchestral soloist, Peteler had appeared with, among others, the Minneapolis Symphony under Adolf Weidig and in recitals. Her concert debut was in 1918, assisting no less an artist than Enrico Caruso. Engagements were booked for Thomas Edison’s “Tone Tests”, including one in Kentucky with whistler Sybil Sanderson Fagan, which was billed in the press as “Hokpinsville’s most important musical event of the season.” She was announced as having been contracted for silent movies in 1918, In the 1919-1920 season she was listed under the management of R. E. Johnson (here as a mezzo-soprano), but little seems to be known about her musical engagements post 1920. After having left Edison in 1922, she made two recordings for Vocalion the following year, but nothing further could be traced of her or of her career.

1073. 80481 [6713-A/6726-A]. IL BACIO (Arditi) / MORENITA (Buzzi-Peccia). Both in Italian. 2. $8.00.

GIOVANNI POLESE [b]. See also: UMBERTO MACNEZ [t]

1067. SS 82501 [987-?/815-?]. LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX: Ambo nati in questa valle (Doni-zetti) / AGNES KIMBALL [s], HARRY ANTHONY [t]. IL TROVATORE: Miserere (Verdi). Side one lam. crk. to first groove, otherwise 2-3. Side two lam. crks. from outer margin in about a quarter inch, one LGT end, otherwise 2-3. $10.00.

STELLA POWER [s] 1093. ER 80401 [6009-B/6018-B]. SPRING (Henschel) / PERLE DU BRÉSIL: Charmant

oiseau (David). Side one piano acc. Frank St. Leger. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

MARIE RAPPOLD [s]. See also: GIOVANNI ZENATELLO [t], JACQUES URLUS [t]

1149. RC82219 [6457-B/6823-C]. SING ME LOVE’S LULLABY (Morse) / MARIO LAURENTI [b]. LOVE IS MINE (Gartner). Excellent pressing. Few lightest rubs, cons. 2. $10.00.

ELISABETH SCHUMANN [s] 1091. RC 73005 [3557-B/3590-B]. FIDELIO: O wär ich schon mit dir vereint (Beetho-

ven) / KARL JÖRN [t]. SEHNSUCHT (Rubinstein). IMs. Cons. 2. $20.00.

ANITA RIO [s]. See: ORPHÉE LANGEVIN [b]

JOSÉ MOJICA

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BLANCHE (SCHARFF) SKRAINKA [s]. St. Louis, MO, 1873-St. Louis, MO, 1958. Mrs. Skrainka was “St Louis’ brilliant dramatic soprano” (1918 newspaper quote), who was active in that city in the ‘teens and ‘twenties of the last century. Opera appearances included Leonora in Il Trovatore as a guest in a St. Louis opera season by the Gallo San Carlo touring company in 1916. In 1918, she was heard a week at the Orpheum Theater in St. Louis in vaudeville where it was announced that she would “sing her best numbers and will donate her entire salary for the week to the Red Cross.” She also appeared in numerous local social doings and community concerts, including a 1927 performance of Mendelsohn’s Elijah with a local beginning soprano, Helen Traubel. There’s also the Blanche Skrainka who was a noted artist and whose career was particularly recognized from the 1920s until her death. One especially reported bit of local news was in 1939 where she drew notice in a local art exhibition through her painting submitted and accepted, “Madame Queen’s Beer Parlor”, a New Orleans street scene. She entered the competition as “A. Ruse”. Speaking of this, Mrs. Skrainka said, “I’ve sent a lot of stuff in under my own name and they rejected it … on account of my social position, so this time I resorted to a ruse. It worked.” Only one Edison record by her is listed in Raymond Wile’s Edison Disc Recordings, and this a Tone Test disc likely not commercially released, 80377: SPRING (Chaminade)/LOLITA (Buzzi-Peccia), which I’ve never seen. Tone Test discs were apparently pressed to be made available at local Edison stores in areas where Tone Tests were given. A few were by artists of area distinction and weren’t always part of the general catalogue listings. An article in the St. Louis Dispatch late in Mrs. Skrainka’s life stated, “Mrs. Skrainka occasionally gets out some of her Edison Records and listens to herself sing.” Here’s your opportunity to enjoy her as well!

1098. Matrix 5599-C (same item and take pressed on both sides). LA FILLE DU RÉGI- MENT: Salut à la France (Donizetti). In French. Untrimmed test, gen. 3. $35.00

1104. Matrix 5603-C/4901-A. LINDA DI CHAMOUNIX: O luce di quest’anima (Donizetti) / HAROLD LYMAN [flute]. ROBIN ADAIR (?). Side one in Italian. Both sides unpublished. Mrs. Skrainka chooses to bypass the final high C in favor of one an octave lower. Two bumps both sides sound. Untrimmed test. Gen. 3-4. $25.00.

MAGGIE TEYTE [s] 1066. ER 82205 [6604-B/7503-C]. KASHMIRI SONG

(Woodford-Finden) / ARTHUR MIDDLETON [bs-b]. PALE MOON (Logan). Lightest rubs, gen. 2. $8.00.

JACQUES URLUS [t]. See also: LORETTA DAL VALLÉ [s]

1101. ER 57017 [5356-B/5528-B]. MAGIC FLUTE: Wie stark is nicht dein Zauberton! (Mozart) / FLYING DUTCHMAN: Wills jenes tag’s du nicht (Wagner). Scare disc, issued about a decade after the recordings were made. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

1107. RC 82260 [3597-A/3598-A]. MAGIC FLUTE: Dies bildniss ist bezaubernd schon (Mozart) / LA JUIVE: Recha, als Gott dich (Halévy). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

1108. RC 82260 [3597-B/3598-B]. Same as previous listing but different takes both sides. Cons. 2. $15.00.

1109. RC 82260 [3597-B/3598-A]. Same as previous listings but differing take combination. Dealer lbl. Cons. 2. $15.00.

1052. ER 82278 [5496-A/8267-C]. MARTHA: Ach! so fromm / ARTHUR MIDDLETON [bs-b]. ERL-KÖNIG (Schubert). Small lbl. tear side one. Side one 2. Side two few rubs, 2-3. $12.00.

1057. RC 82280 [3610-A/5191-C]. DAS ZAUBERLIED (Meyer-Helmund) / ARTHUR MIDDLETON [bs-b]. DER TROMPETER VON SÄKKINGEN: Es hat nicht sollen sein (Nessler). Just about 1-2. $20.00

1128. RC 83028 [3589-B/3730-B]. DER FREISCHÜTZ: Durch die Wälder (Weber) / EXPLANATORY TALK. Cons. 2. $15.00.

1153. SS 83030 [3616-B/3997-B]. FIDELIO: Gott! welch’ Dunkel hier! (Beethoven) / EX-PLANATORY TALK. Slightest (harmless) edge curling. Cons. 2. $15.00.

1148. ER 83054 [4683-A/4854-A]. LOHENGRIN Dass süsse Lied verhalt (Wagner). With MARIE RAPPOLD [s] / EXPLANATORY TALK. Excellent pressing, few lightest mks., cons. 2. $15.00.

JACQUES URLUS as Siegfried

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EMILIA (SANCHEZ) VERGERI [s]. Born in Valencia, Spain, Vergeri studied with Goula in Barcelona. Her U.S. career likely began around 1910 and she appeared with a variety of touring opera companies in roles such as Aida, Leonora in both Il Trovatore and La Forza del Destino, Gioconda and Santuzza. Several reviews from 1925 place her with the “Boston Civic Opera Company’, performing at the Manhattan Opera House in New York and with the “Scala Company” at the Philadelphia Academy of Music. As Aida in New York, she was reviewed as “diminutive but experienced” and that she “embodied the distressed heroine with successful results”. The Rhadames, making his debut that evening, was Norbert Adler who, as Norberto Ardelli, was to become a leading tenor during the NYC Opera’s first season some twenty years later. The Arkansas Democrat went so far as to praise Vergeri as “The Emmy Destinn of the San Carlo Opera Company”. In Philadelphia, the sports minded music critic stated that Vergeri “scored decisively” as Santuzza. She turns up through the 1930s in New York performances by various operatic groups, such as in Il Trovatore with the “Royal Grand Opera Company” at Gabel’s Public Theatre on 2nd Avenue. Also in that company was another Edison artist, tenor Charles Hart. Vergeri also was Aida with the “International Grand Opera Company”, again at a 2nd Avenue venue. The latest performance traced was again Santuzza at the Randalls Island Stadium in 1941 under Giuseppe Bamoschek. She was teaching in New York in 1940 as Emilia Vergeri Odierno. Her husband, Enrico Ordierno, was New York casting director for the Philadelphia La Scala Opera Company as well as having been affiliated with various itinerant operatic troupes, some featuring his wife.

1100. ER 60017 [6270-A/6279-A]. LA CORTE DE FARAÓN: Aria (Vicente Lleó) / CARLOS VILLARIAS [bs]. MARÚXA: El Golondron (Vives). Just about 1-2. $20.00.

ALICE VERLET [s]. See also: GIOVANNI ZENATELLO [t]

1060. RC 82265 [4861-C/4727-B]. LES FILLES DE CADIX (Delibes) / HAMLET: Doute de la lumière (Thomas). Side two with ORPHÉE LANGEVIN [b]. Cons. 2. $12.00.

GIOVANNI ZENATELLO [t] 1089. ER 82201 [5250-B/5023-C]. UN BALLO IN MASCHERA: Di tu se fedele (Verdi) /

AIDA: Fuggiam gli ardori (Verdi). Side two with MARIE RAPPOLD [s]. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

1105. 82214 [4947-B/7191-A]. REQUIEM: Ingemisco (Verdi) / TORCOM BÉZAZIAN [b]. MANON: A quoi bon l’économie (Massenet). Cons. 2. $15.00.

1106. 82214 [4947-C/7191-B]. Same as preceding item (#1105) but different takes both sides. There are subtle and occasionally not so subtle differences between takes in most Edison records if one cares to take the time to listen in detail. For example, Zenatello’s take C, above, is just slightly more forward than B. Also, near the end of take B, he sings the vowel “a” in the word “ma” with considerable spread and snarl whereas in take C he completely modifies that vowel. Small internal crk. about ¼” side one. 2. $10.00.

1155. ER 82288 [4426-C/5007-A]. FAUST: Salve, dimora (Gounod) / IL TROVATORE: Miserere (Verdi). Side two with MARIE RAPPOLD [s]. Excellent copy, few lightest mks., cons. 2. $15.00.

1154. ER 83043 [4422-A/4534-B]. OTELLO: Dio! mi potevi (Verdi) / EXPLANATORY TALK. Excellent copy, lightest mks. 2. $15.00

1061. RC 83043 [4422-C/4534-B]. Same as preceding listing but different take side one. Just about 1-2. $15.00

1062. RC 83057 [4836-A/4972-B]. LA BOHÈME: O soave fanciulla (Puccini) / EXPLANA-TORY TALK. Side one with ALICE VERLET [s]. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

1135. RC 83057 [4836-B/4972-B]. Same as preceding item except different take side one. Side one just about 1-2 (minor pencil mks. on lbl). Side two small lbl. tear, cons. 2. $12.00.

1069. RC 83066 [5014-A/5288-A]. AÏDA: O terra addio (Verdi) / EXPLANATORY TALK. With MARIE RAPPOLD [s]. Cons. 2. $12.00.

EMILIA VERGERI

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Instrumental / Personality EDISON DIAMOND-DISCS / PATHÉ VERTICALLY-CUT DISCS

VLADIMIR DUBINSKY [cellist]. 1123. RC 80718 [5417-C/6098-B]. AS ONCE IN HAPPIER DAYS, Op. 64, No. 1 (Popper) /

BOHUMIR KRYL [cornet]. CARNIVAL OF VENICE [VARIATIONS]. BOTH labels autographed by the respective artists. Cons. 2. $50.00.

EDWIN FRANKO GOLDMAN dir. THE GOLDMAN BAND 1103. ER (electric) 52380 [18655-A/18660-B].

ON THE MALL MARCH (Goldman) / THE JOLLY COPPERSMITH (C. Peter). Label side one signed by Goldman. Just about 1-2. $40.00.

VÁŠA PŘÍHODA [violinist] 1117. RC 82255 [8285-A/8286-C]. GYPSY SERE-

NADE (Charles R. Valdez) / SPANISH DANCE, Op. 58, No. 1 (Fabian Rehfeld). Piano acc. Otto Eisen. Cons. 2. $15.00.

1116. RC 82261 [8274-A/8275-C]. CONCERTO No. 4 in D MINOR: Adagio Religioso / CONCERTO No. 4 in D MINOR: Allegro (Vieutemps, Op. 31). Piano acc. Otto Eisen. Last year I listed A and B takes of both sides. Here’s a C of side two. IMs and lightest surface mks., cons. 2. $15.00.

SERGEI RACHMANINOFF [pianist] 1118. ER 82187 [6742-A/6744-B]. PRÉLUDE IN

C# MINOR, Op. 3 / POLKA DE W. R. (both Rachmaninoff). Just about 1-2. $20.00.

1115. ER 82202 [6736-A/6743-C]. VALSE IN A FLAT, Op. 64, No. 3 (Chopin) / BARCA-ROLLE, Op. 10 (Rachmaninoff). Just about 1-2. $20.00.

Personality EDISON DIAMOND-DISCS

SAM SILBERBUSCH and SADIE WACHTEL [Yiddish Entertainers]

1102. ER 59512 [9064-A/9063-A]. DER GRINER JANITOR (Comic Sketch) / SAM SIL-BERBUSCH and COMPANY. YENTE TELEBENDE KOJFT A RECORD (both Comic Sketches in Yiddish). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

THOMAS A. EDISON [speaker] 1080. 50509 [6540-A/6509-B]. LET US NOT FORGET (Speech) / N.Y. MILITARY BAND.

NATIONAL AIRS OF THE ALLIES. A version with take “B” was listed last year. One LSS. Minor rubs . 2. $75.00.

PATHÉ VERTICALLY CUT DISCS CS=center start (“etched center”), PL=paper label (outside start). SS=single sided. All 11½” unless otherwise described.

HENRI [JOHAN HENDRIK] ALBERS [b]. Amsterdam, 1866-Paris, 1926. Albers, a Dutch-born singer, first worked as an actor and then appeared in operetta. He made his operatic debut in 1889 as Méphistophélès in Gounod’s Faust. Encouraged by Massenet to study in France, Albers trained for a period with Jean-Baptiste Faure. His long career of singing a large and varied repertoire of leading roles included, among others, the opera houses in Antwerp, Bordeaux, the London Royal Opera, the Monte-Carlo Opera, New York’s Metropolitan Opera (1898-99, singing 36 performances), Brussels, La Monnaie, and the Paris Opéra and Opéra-Comique.

1162. 11½” CS 260 [894/912]. ASCANIO: Arioso de Benvenuto (Saint-Saëns) / MESSA-LINE: Recit. … O nuit d’amour (de Lara). Orch. acc. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

1172. 11½” PL No.14 [793/953]. L’AIGLE: Ah! mes fidèles (Nouguès) / PATRIE: Pauvre martyr obscure (Paladilhe). 2. $15.00.

HUGH ALLAN [b]. Montréal, 1887 - ? . Allan was raised in Atlanta, Georgia, and began his musical career at the age of sixteen as an organist for the Trinity Church in Columbus, GA. In 1903 he travelled to Berlin to study piano with Scharwenka and organ with Franz Gruneke. At this time he also began vocal studies with Richard Lowe who had taught, among many others,

VÁŠA PŘÍHODA

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Emmy Destinn and Maria Labia. Returning to the U.S. he was accepted for the Montréal Opera in principal baritone roles. A return trip to Europe included studies with Massimino Perilli in Giorgini, Italy, who told him that he “had wasted precious years singing baritone parts.” Apparently he was also encouraged to study as a tenor by Pasquale Amato and Victor Maurel, and upon his return to America supposedly the Montréal opera reengaged him, but as a tenor. However all his clippings in the 1915-18 period consistently refer to him as a baritone. At some point he lived in Vomero, a district of Naples. He stated that he “grew into the life of the Neapolitan, living his life, mingling with the people, singing for his criticisms”, and so on. This article also reports that despite his Italian adventures, he was “an American through and through” and “a product of ‘Sunny California”. I wonder what happened to Canada and Georgia? He had lots of concert work from 1915 through 1918 and then he appears to have vanished. Perhaps he died during European service in World War I or possibly during the flu epidemic of 1918. Care to fill in the blanks?

1161. 11½” PL Green Pathé 52004 [E6…./E6….]. CANTA PA LUNA / ARIA FRESCA (both Evemaro Nardella). Cons. 2. $15.00.

GINA BALDASSARE-TEDESCHI [s]. See: TITO SCHIPA [t]

EMMA CALVÉ [s] 1175. 11½” PL Grey 59090 [2304/2370]. CARMEN: Chanson Bohème (Bizet) / BARCA-

ROLLE (Gounod). Side two with piano. Few lt. mks., cons. 2. $15.00.

1171. 11½” PL Green No.0275 [2303/2318]. LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN: Barcarolle (Offenbach) / CÉLÉBRE SÉRÉNADE (Gounod). Lt. rubs, 2-3. $12.00.

1168. 11½” PL Green No.3193 [2577/2573]. DERNIERS VOEUX / L’HEURE EXQUISE (both R. Hahn). Piano acc. Cons. 2. $20.00.

ENRICO CARUSO [t] 1181. 11½” CS 84003/84004 [trans. 63091/63035].

TU NON MI VUOI PIÙ BENE (Pini-Corsi) / TOSCA: E lucean le stelle (Puccini). Fine copy, cons. 2. $60.00.

1182. 11½” CS 84004/84006 [trans. 10671/10670]. TOSCA: E luceano le stelle (Puccini)/ HUGUENOTS: Qui sotto il ciel (Meyerbeer). Cons. 2. $60.00.

LYSE CHARNY [s] 1177. 11½” PL Green No.0298 [2879/2883]. LA

BOHEME: Chanson de Musette (Leonca-vallo) / ASCANIO: Chanson de Scozzone (Saint-Saëns). Few lightest mks., cons. 2. $15.00.

EDMOND CLÉMENT [t] 1167. 11½” PL Green Pathé No.2022 [1947/1948]. IL EST D’ÉTRANGES SOIRS (André

Roubaud) / LAKMÉ: Ah! viens dans la forêt (Delibes). Side one just about 1-2. Side two lt. rubs, 2. $15.00.

1173. 11½” PL Green Pathé No.3319 [200185/200186]. LA TRUITE (Schubert) / ADIEU (Gabriel Fauré). Piano acc. Just about 1-2. $20.00.

JEAN FRANÇOIS DELMAS [bs] 1169. 11½” CS 2495/2496. LES HUGUENOTS: Bénédictions des poignards (Meyerbeer) /

FAUST: Scène de l’Eglise (Gounod). Piano acc. Just about 1-2. $15.00. MARIA GALVANY [s] 1176. 11½” CS 4123/4125. MIREILLE: Valse (Gounod) / DINORAH: Ombra leggiera

(Meyerbeer). Cons. 2. $15.00.

KATHLEEN HOWARD [c]. Clifton, Ontario, Canada, 1880 (or 1884)- Hollywood, CA, 1956. She studied in Buffalo, NY, where she had moved as a child and then in New York, Berlin and Paris, here with Jean De Reszke. Her operatic debut was in Metz (Germany) in 1907 as Azucena, also singing Carmen, and then three seasons of 1909-12 in Darmstadt, also guesting at Covent Gardenn and in St. Petersburg. She appeared with the Century Opera in NY, 1914-15 and then with the Metropolitan Opera, 1916-28, singing character roles such as Zita in

LYSE CHARNY

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Gianni Schicchi, which she created in the Met premiere of the opera in 1918. After retiring from singing in1928, she became fashon editor of Harper’s Bazaar and in 1934 began yet a third career, this as a film actress. Her best remembered roles were three films with W. C. Fields, although she continued in movies until 1950, “racking up 52 credits in just 16 years”. Her most unfortunate film incident was having her jaw broken by Barbara Stanwick when she failed to duck quickly enough in a screen punch. “Stanwyck was horrified to have sent her 61-year-old co-star to the hospital.” -Quotes and Caruso drawing from e-bay article on Howard by “Sister Celluloid”.

1164. 10½” PL Grey Pathé 27515 [ ? / ? ]. MAR- THA: In My Heart There’s No Room For Sadness (Flotow) / MIGNON: Connais-tu le pays (Thomas). Cons. 2. $10.00.

ADOLPHE MARÉCHAL [t] 1170. 9½” CS SS 322. MANON: En fermant les

yeux (Massenet). Label paint missing from center information. Surface just about 1-2. Piano acc. $75.00.

CLAUDIA MUZIO [s] 1165. 11½” PL Grey SS 54038 [E67358-2].

UNTIL (Sanderson). In English. Just about 1-2. $15.00.

1166. 11½” PL Grey SS 54039 [E67357-1]. BONJOUR SUZON (Delibes). In English. Cons. 2. $15.00.

1185. 11½” PL Grey SS 54057 [E68275-2]. BACIAMI (Buzzi-Peccia). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

1184. 11½” PL Grey SS 54062 [E68272-?]. O BEN TORNATO, AMORE [WELCOME, LOVE] (Roxas). Just about 1-2. $15.00.

TITO SCHIPA [t] 1183. 11½” PL SS Grey 54045 [E68256-1]. LA TRAVIATA: Dei miei bollenti spiriti (Verdi).

Just about 1-2. $12.00.

1174. 11½” PL Grey 59053 [86559/86563]. ZAZÀ: Ed ora io mi dormando (Leoncavallo) / TOSCA: Amaro sol per te (Puccini). Side two with GIUSEPPINA BALDASSARE-TEDESCHI [s]. Small lbl. stkr. Just about 1-2. $12.00.

UNKNOWN SOPRANO 1163. 11½” CS SS 80237. IRIS: Non più le mie pianelle (Mascagni). Piano acc. As with a

number of very early Italian Pathés, there is no singer identification. Any idea as to whom she might be? She is obviously very capable. Excellent copy, cons. 2. $15.00.

ALBERT VAGUET [t]. 1865-1943. Celebrated tenor of the Paris Opéra from 1890 to 1903. A fascinating article in a 1913 issue of Musical America tells of Vaguet, whose voice was affected by problems created during a tonsillectomy, thereby causing his retirement. Said Vaguet, “I still have the voice that won me fame and fortune, fresh, full, liquid. [Baritone Victor] Capoul weeps when he hears it. But to sing through a short scene means untold torture for me! That Paris surgeon laid the nerves bare in my vocal cords, or something like that. [It would have been better had he] … cut them out entirely. I cannot say that there is no bitterness left in my heart. There is. And when I heard Caruso two years ago at th Opéra I had to leave the proscenium box because tears were streaming down my cheeks. I had to clutch at the railing to stifle the sobs that were welling up in my breast, and even those sobs gave me physical pain that burned and tore me! It is folly, but I still have hope. Without it I would die. There are times when the cords seem less terribly sensitive. Last week, at [baritone Pedro] Gaillard’s [home], I went through almost an act of Thaïs.” In addition to Vaguet, the opera world lost at the same time his wife, Alba Chrétien-Vaguet, a celebrated soprano, who also retired in 1903 to remain at her husband’s side. Apparently Vaguet’s work for Pathé, which continued until 1927, was possible because of the short duration of time involved in singing for each recording. This appears to have been his main means of income.

1160. 9½” CS 3537/4576. LA CLOCHE DU RHIN: Ervine, écoute-moi (S. Rousseau) / FAUST: Salut, ô mon dernier matin (Gounod). Vaguet created the leading tenor role in the 1898 Paris Opéra of La Cloche du Rhin. Side one gen. 2. Side two some lt. greying, 3. $12.00.

1917 Caricature of KATHLEEN HOWARD by ENRICO CARUSO

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NATALIA YERMOLENKO YUSHINA [s] 1180. 11½” CS 21870/21871. PIQUE DAME: Lisa’s Air / MAZEPPA: Cradle Song (both

Tschaikowsky). Piano acc. Moscow, 1904 recordings. Just about 1-2. $150.00.

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NAHAN FRANKO dir. HIS ORCHESTRA. New Orleans, 1857 – Amityville (!), NY, 1930. Franko’s fam-ily moved to Berlin around 1860 where Nahan and his siblings, including noted violinist brother Sam, all studied violin. Nathan became a noted orchestral and ensemble violinist, serving with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in 1898 and becoming its concertmaster from 1883 until 1907. He was also a conductor at the Met, the first American to wave a baton there, and he also conducted his own orchestra and various house ensembles. Band master Edwin Franko Goldman was his nephew.

1178. 9½” Grey PL 27034 [ ? / ? ]. TWO HUNGARIAN DANCES (Brahms) / TWO INDIAN DANCES: No. 1, “Deer Dance”, No. 2 “War Dance”. Both labels state “as danced by LADA”. LADA (born Emily Schupp: Duluth, MN, 1888-Bellevue, WA, 1964) was a “concert dancer” who performed in the ‘teens and early ‘20s of the last century. She appeared in Carnegie Hall at least twice, with Nahan Franko conducting his Symphony Orchestra, one a 1919 concert in which she interpreted Tschaikowsky’s 6th Symphony, Schubert’s Unfinished, and Ravel’s Valses nobles et sentimentales. Skilton’s War Dance, recorded above, came near the end of the program and was particularly well received. A Musical America reviewer wrote of this excerpt: “In Skilton’s War Dance – that stirring music so well interpreted by Mr. Franko – LADA was at her best, which was quickly appreciated by the spectators. Her slight figure, topped with the massive headdress of an In- dian chieftan, was the embodiment of rhythm. Such motion! Such music! Such grace!” In 1922, upon the death of her mother and shortly after marriage to her concert manager, LADA partially retired and then completely upon the birth of a son.

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A 1915 (pre-amplification) performance of the Verdi Requiem at New York's Polo Grounds. From left to right: GIOVANNI ZENATELLO [t], LUCILLE LAWRENCE [s], MARIA GAY [c], LÉON

ROTHIER [bs], LOUIS KOEMMENICH [conductor]

18.1. cylinders, ed. discs, pathes, pp 7-22 armenian baritone active in the u.s. during the 1910-25...

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