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(CONTINUED FROM PREVIOUS PAGE) Schumann-Heink, who sang an effective and affecting Brahm’s "Lullaby", as well as the famous Spanish dancer Vincente Escudero and the inimitable ballerina Maria Gambarelli.
The latter part of 1929, there came to Hollywood yet another tenor this one hailed from Ireland and his name — the immortal John McCormack. Mr. McCormack'’s sole American screen appearance was in "Song ‘’o my Heart" produced by Fox in 1930. This heartwarming story also featured two other Irish personalities who were to be seen in many more motion pictures Maureen OfSullivan and J. M. Kerrigan. Some of the many ballads sung in the film included "Ireland Mother Ireland", "Rose of Tralee”, "Little Boy Blue", "A Fairy Story by the Fire”, and "I Feel You Near Me" — each written by a different composer. A few of these are still available in our record catalogues today. Public apathy towards the film showed itself at the box-office a most important barometer in the film industry and John McCormack left Hollywood for if you will pardon the expression ‘greener fields’. He next appeared as © himself in the English color film "Wings of the Morning", which starred Annabella and Henry Fonda and released by Fox in 1937. This picture, incidentally, broke all attendance records at the 3,000 seat Uptown Theatre in Toronto, Canada. Mr. McCormack's presence in "Wings of the Morning" consisted of singing two ballads during a party reception sequence , and that was his swan song to the screen. Whenever he would be asked by interviewers regarding his short cinematic career, he would quip "They said I had no sex appeal!"
Another prize tenor with record collectors was Tino Pattiera, who had also sung with the Metropolitan Opera but was to gain fame largely in Germany. His initial film an Italian version of "Fra Diavolo", was seen in North America in 1931. This was poorly photographed, the sound was bad even for those early 'talking picture’ days, and the singing was kept to a minimum, Truly an inauspicious debut. Mr. Pattiera went to the trouble of making the German version entitled "Der Teufelsbruder", This apparently did not re
ceive too much distribution, and was shown exclusively (Continued on page 25)