[78-L] "Ruby, you're like a dream..."

[Taylor Bowie]

Hey, David...thanks for posting the link to that painting,  which I've loved 
ever since seeing it in an art book as a kid (Elliot.  THREE HUNDRED YEARS 
OF AMERICAN PAINTING. 1957).  It's one of the finest portraits I've ever 
seen.  Whoever she was,  I hope her singing was as beautiful as she was.

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78L" <78-L at 78online.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2009 3:17 PM
Subject: [78-L] Ruby Green


> Does anyone know if a (possibly) Canadian soprano named Ruby Green, who 
> appears
> in a number of references in Toronto newspapers (1923-30) giving concerts 
> and
> radio broadcasts all of a "lyric soprano" variety, is the same Ruby Green 
> who
> sang on some Canadian Victor 78s as a soloist and also as vocalist with 
> Joseph
> C. Smith's Orchestra? (216466, Friml's "On the Blue Lagoon" definitely 
> features
> a trained soprano voice, in the excruciating Jeanette MacDonald style.) Or 
> is
> she THIS Ruby Green, immortalized in a painting by James Chapin?
> http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/extract/285/11/1403 (Sorry, you need 
> to be
> a doctor to be able to read the accompanying article.)
> Given the times, if the Ruby Green in the painting were the lyric soprano 
> in
> the concerts, there would definitely be references to her non-Caucasian
> features and this is not the case.
>
> dl
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