After Bruno Walter, My Career Went In

That Is What I Always Tell Service Clubs: If You Hear Of Somebody Who Is Very Young And Talented, Pick Them Up And Give Them That Little Assistance To Make Sure That They Get To The Professional Stage.

By The Time I Was Four, I Would Walk Around The Corner And Wait At A Local Streetcar Stop, Get On The Streetcar With Somebody Who Looked Like They Could Be My Mother And Go To The End Of The Line.

I Thought I Should Go To New York Because It Was The Place To Go To Study. I Went And Tried To Get An Application From The Juilliard School But They Wouldn't Even Give Me One Because I Didn't Have My High School Graduation.

If Somebody Asks Me To Recommend A Young, Good Singer, I Always Do.

Singing Beautiful Melodies Is One Thing, But To Deliver The Text So That The People Understand It, Even In A Foreign Language, Has To Be Worked At Very Hard.