Interrupted Melody - The Story Of My Life
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THE STORY OF MY LIFE by LAWRENCE . Contents include: 1. Tale of a Horse 1 2. The Lawrences 8 3. Musical Missionary 19 4. Love-Its Called 23 5. Running Away 30 6. Prodigals Return 37 7. Vocal Victory 46 8. Going Abroad 56 9. Innocents Abroad 63 10. CecileGilly 69 11. French Friends 75 12. Tough Going 83 13. Monte Carlo Gamble 93 14. On the Way 99 15. Provincial Opera 105 16. It Never Rains But ... 110 17. Mission Accomplished 119 18. Labors Reward 124. 19. New York 128 20. Wagner in Germany 142 21. Home Again 150 22. Crest of the Wave 159 23. My Angel 166 24. Mexico City 182 25. Sister Kenny 193 26. I Audition Again 206 27. The Opera Again 218 28. The Old Veteran 235 29. Off to the Wars 243 30. Return to Europe 264 31. Musical Diplomacy 275 32. On My Feet 288 tion, 6 FACING PAGE My birthplace, Deans Marsh, Victoria 38 As Brunnhilde, at Lille and at the Metropolitan 39 As Ortrud in Lohengrin, Metropolitan, 1934 54 As Salome, Metropolitan, 1936 55 Homecoming, 1939 102 On horseback, Australia, 1939 103 At the University of Minnesota Hospital, 1941 118 Sister Kenny and I 119 As Venus in Tannhaiiser with Lauritz Melchior, 1942 166 With Sir Thomas Beecham and Tristan und Isolde cast, Montreal, 1943 167 White House luncheon, 1943 182 After a concert for the hospitalized troops in the Southwest Pacific 183 At Buckingham Palace, 1945 230 The Berlin Christmas concert, 1946 231 My husband and I at Harmony Hills 244 On my feet 245. ONE DAY in 1935 1 scrawled my name across the contract that Edward Johnson, general manager of the Metropoli tan Opera, had sent from New York, and pushed it across the table to Eric Semon, then the Metropolitans repre sentative in Paris. All was decided. I would obtain leave from the Paris Opera the following season and sing a number of roles in New York. I had had an earlier Metropolitan offer but had turned it down. The Paris Opera was providing me with every thing for which a singer could ask good roles, good fees and a thoroughly musical envi
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