Elsie Houston in New York. Chronology. (Note: Most of the entries below are based on listings and concert reviews in the New York Times. I've given the actual dates of the concert appearances. Often the NYT would run an announcement the day before and a review the day after. This is list is not necessarily complete. The search index for the Historical New York Times missed some minor nightclub announcements but was generally pretty reliable).
1937
March 8 Appearance. E.H. attends dinner in New York for Texas University ex-Students Association to celebrate Texas Independence Day. Pictured with Dr. Rafael C. de Oliveira. (San Antonio Express)
November 19 Concert. E.H. sings at reception in honor of Pierre Monteux, guest conductor of the NBC Symphony Orchestra, given by the Friends of the Delacroze School of Music at the Beethoven Association. (NYT)
December 28. Herbert Jacoby opens Le Ruban Bleu.
1938
January 2 Night Club listing. Newly opened Le Ruban Bleu (4 E. 56th St). E.H. shares the bill with Marie Eve (Swiss mimic) and Jimmy Daniels ("Negro, singer, late of Paris") (NYT)
January 6 Radio listing. E.H appears on Vallee Varieties (Thursday Nights at 8 on WEAF). Performs "voodoo incantation to a war god." Shares the bill with Tommy Riggs (monologist), Sugarfoot and Sassafrass (comedians), J.B. Priestley (interviewed), Dame Sybil Thorndike (presents scene from "Time and the Conways") (NYT) (Tape of show available at Library of Congress)
February 6 Concert. E.H. gives recital at Guild Theatre. Program as follows: selections of modern Brazilian composers--Guarnieri, Ovalle, and Villa Lobos; Ravel's "Sur l'Herbe," Barlow's "The Beggar," Satie's "Dapheneo," "Ariette Oubliee" of Debussy and three songs by Stravinsky; a group of Indian, Cuban, Jewish and Argentinian folk songs; Brazilian folk songs. (NYT)
March 4 Radio News. E.H. appears on debut program of new shortwave channel (W2XAD) targeted at Brazilian public. Program includes messages from Sumner Welles (Under-Secretary of State), Fernando Lobo (Brazilian Embassy), L.S. Rowe (director general of Pan American Union), Berent Friele (American-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce), Luis de Faro (consul general of Brazil). Also, music by Naomi C. Bittencourt (Brazilian pianist). (NYT)
March 6 Night Club News. Report on Le Ruban Bleu. E.H. "offers Brazilian and French songs in a voice that is soothing and true and of range. In Paris and New York she has quite a following which is not shy in asking for its favorites, including her unusual Brazilian incantation." Others on bill include Hope Emerson, pianist and singer, as well as Marie Eve, Jimmy Daniels, and Cyril Walter & Gilbert Bowers (pianists). (NYT)
April 19 Correspondence from Lotte Lenya to Kurt Weill. "Tonight I'm having a dinner party! Elsie Huston (sic), Marie Eve with her girlfriend, and George Davis. Pretty fancy, huh?" (translated by Lys Symonette and Kim H. Kowalke).
April 24 Correspondence from Lotte Lenya to Kurt Weill. "Sometimes they're [the crowds at the Ruban Bleu] loud, but they are with Elsie too." (translated by Lys Symonette and Kim H. Kowalke).
April 26 Correspondence from Lotte Lenya to Kurt Weill. "I'm under the impression that neither he [Herbert Jacoby] nor I can get any more out of this...You can see that with Elsie Huston (sic), who still has the biggest and surest success every night. She hasn't received a single offer from anywhere else...[T]his Elsie has quite a bag of tricks. She has it a lot easier. With all those drumms and strange instruments. Then people think it's really something...Now I'm going with Marie Eve to a concert Elsie is giving tonight in a private home. That's how time flies."(translated by Lys Symonette and Kim H. Kowalke).
April 28 Correspondence from Lotte Lenya to Kurt Weill. "Tonight was one of those noisy nights again. Even Elsie stopped right in the middle, because it was so loud she couldn't go on." [Marlene Dietrich and Cole Porter in the audience] (translated by Lys Symonette and Kim H. Kowalke).
May 1 Le Ruban Bleu closes for the summer.
October 30 Night Club News. Note on Le Ruban Bleu. "Elsie Huston (sic), possessing a voice of a quality seldom heard in night clubs, sings a group of South American and French songs." Others include, Mme Morgane (comic chanteuse), Billy Haywood and Cliff Allen (a wicked couple from Harlem), Nora Sheridan (naughty verses), Gil Bowers and Cy Walter (pianists). (NYT)
December 2 Concert. E.H. presents "South American folk lore and French songs" at "bassinet dinner dance" benefit for Alice Chapin Adoption Nursery. Others on bill include Vincenzo Celli (opera singer). (NYT)
December 4 Night Club news. E.H. continues at Le Ruban Bleu. Also, Greta Keller, Paloma, Mabel Mercer, Gil Bowers and Cy Walter (pianists). (NYT)
1939
February 11 notice. EH "deserts Le Ruban Bleu" for a South American cruise. (New York Post)
July 16 Night Club News. The "perennial" E.H. continues at Le Ruban Bleu. Her "singing of Brazilian incantations and songs makes all her imitators seem as spurious as the 5-and-10 cent baubles they wear." Also appearing: Vicente Gomez (guitarist), Billy Haywood and Cliff Allen. (NYT)
September 30 New Yorker Listing. Le Ruban Bleu reopens, with E.H. headlining.
October 7. E.H. at Le Ruban Bleu (New Yorker)
October 14. E.H. at Le Ruban Bleu (New Yorker)
October 21. E.H. at Le Ruban Bleu (New Yorker)
October 28. E.H. at Le Ruban Bleu (New Yorker)
November 4. E.H. at Le Ruban Bleu (New Yorker)
November 11. E.H. at Le Ruban Bleu (New Yorker)
November 18. E.H. at Le Ruban Bleu (New Yorker)
December 3 Night Club News. E.H. (with Vicente Gomez, Jack Cole) appearance at Rainbow Room postponed. E.H. not at Ruban Bleu "at the moment". (NYT)
1940
February 2 Radio listing. E.H. appears on WNYC at 4:30. (NYT)
March 10 Concert. E.H. appears on League of Composers program at Museum of Modern Art. E.H. presents songs by Villa Lobos, Raoul da Verneuil, Alberto Williams and Jayme Ovalle and "a group of folksongs harmonized by various South American composers." (NYT)
March 16. E.H. at Le Ruban Bleu (New Yorker)
March 23. E.H. at Le Ruban Bleu (New Yorker)
March 30. Long profile by William G. King in New York Sun.
March 31 Concert. E.H. performs at Young Composers Concert (League of Composers) at New York Public Library. Composers include: Harold Shapero, Bernhard Heiden, Rudolf Revil, Robert Palmer, and Donald Fuller. (NYT)
April 6. E.H. at Le Ruban Bleu (New Yorker)
April 7 Night Club News. Headline "E.H...now at Le Ruban Bleu". E.H. is "back after a brief sabbatical--including a highly successful appearance with the League of Composers." She is "the most bewitching singer now performing in the after-dark salons." (NYT)
April 13 Concert. E.H. appears at "Gala Pan-American Concert" at Town Hall celebrating fiftieth anniversary of the Pan American Union. Also on bill: Remo Bolognini, A.L. de Olivares, Lina D'Acosta, Natalia Garland, Vicente Gomez, Granados Trio (Victor Granados, Rafael Galindo, Luis Spielman). (NYT)
April 13. E.H. at Le Ruban Bleu (New Yorker)
April 20. E.H. at Le Ruban Bleu (New Yorker)
April 27. E.H. at Le Ruban Bleu (New Yorker)
April 29 Concert. E.H. recital for the benefit of the Little Red School House, at Carnegie Chamber Music Hall.(NYT)
May 4. E.H. at Le Ruban Bleu (New Yorker)
May 11. E.H. at Le Ruban Bleu (New Yorker)
May 14. E.H. appearances at Le Ruban Bleu end (New Yorker)
July 7 Concert. E.H. performs at Cape Cod Institute of Music, East Brewster. (Boston Herald)
July 13 Concert. E.H. performs at "Gala Spanish and South American Night" at Lewisohn Stadium. Julio Martinez Oyanguren (guitar) shares the bill. Frieder Weissmann conducts. E.H. program includes "settings by Villa Lobos of Indian-Brazilian melodies." (Olin Downes is unenthusiastic about choice of songs, though full of praise for E.H.) (NYT)
August 22 Concert. E.H. makes World Fair debut at "Brazilian Restaurant." (NYT)
September 1 notice. Boston Globe reports that Samuel Barlow and Louis Simon have plans to feature E.H. in a modern version of Offenbach's "La Perichole." [This never happened as far as I know.]
September 11 Concert. E.H. to appear at a gala mid-week dinner dance at the Sands Point Bath Club, Sands Point, NY. Also appearing: Grace and Graham (Brazilian dancers), Candido Botelho ("dancer" [sic]), Romeo Silva and his Brazilian band. (Brooklyn Eagle)
September 18 Radio Listing. E.H. appears on WNYC "World's Fair Brazilian Program" at 8:00. Also appearing: Armando Vidal, Brazilian Commissioner General. Romeo Silva conducts Brazilian Orchestra. (NYT)
October 12 news profile. Ira Wolfert interviews EH for a long profile, syndicated nation-wide. Focus on voodoo. (Milwaukee Journal)
October 13 Radio Listing. E.H. performs MOMA "Festival of Brazilian Music" program on WABC at 2:35. Romeo Silva and Walter Burle Marx conduct. E.H. program includes: "Bambo do Bambu," an Afro-Brazilian Lullaby, "Jurutaman," and "Payeras." (sic) (NYT)
October 16 & 17 Concert. E.H. appears on first program of Museum of Modern Art "Festival of Brazilian Music." Co-sponsored by Armando Vidal and MOMA, in connection with exhibition of paintings by Candido Portinari. Also appearing: Walter Burle Marx (conductor), Candido Botelho (tenor), Bernard Segall, and Romeo Silva's band. (NYT)
October 16. E.H. begins engagement at Rainbow Room. With Jack Cole (and his dancers Anna Austin and Florence Lessing), Vicente Gomez, and Eddie LeBaron's Orchestra. Show is called "Flores de la Noche." (New Yorker)
October 18 & 19 Concert. E.H. appears on second program of Museum of Modern Art "Festival of Brazilian Music." Also appearing: Romeo Silva's band, Hugh Ross (conductor), members of Schola Cantorum, Perry Machado (violin), Lucile Lawrence (harp), Bernard Segall (piano). E.H. program includes songs by M. Carmago Guarnieri, Jayme Ovalle (Berimbao), and Villa Lobos (Cancão do Carreiro). Pablo Miguel is accompanist. (NYT)
October 18 Radio listing. Second program of MOMA "Festival of Brazilian Music" is broadcast live on WJZ at 9:35. (NYT)
October 19 Radio listing. Second program of MOMA "Festival of Brazilian Music" is broadcast live on WQXR at 4:00. (NYT)
October 19. E.H. at Rainbow Room. (New Yorker).
October 22 Concert. E.H. heard in "brief program" at Hotel Biltmore for The Philharmonic-Symphony League. With speeches by John Barbirolli and Deems Taylor. (NYT)
October 23 Concert. E.H. sings nine Brazilian folk songs. A benefit for Bundles for Britain at Carnegie Chamber Music Hall. Headlining was Sherman Pitluck, violinist. (NYT)
October 26 Night Club Listing. E.H. at Rainbow Room. Also appearing: Jack Cole and Vincent Gomez. With Le Baron's Orchestra. (NYT)
November 2 Night Club Listing. E.H. at Rainbow Room. Also appearing: Jack Cole and Vincent Gomez. With Le Baron's Orchestra. (NYT)
November 4. Photographed by Carl Van Vechten.
November 6 (Wednesday) Radio Listing. E.H.'s Pan American Fiesta on WJZ at 9:35. With Grezielle Parraga (singer) and Julio Oyanguren (guitar). (NYT) (Tape of program available at Library of Congress)
November 9. E.H. at Rainbow Room. (New Yorker).
November 10 Interview in New York Times."For the last fifteen years she has been so closely identified with the music of Brazil that no concert ever seems possible without her..."
November 16. E.H. at Rainbow Room. (New Yorker).
November 17 announcement. NYT reports that E.H. has "just come under the management of Willmore and Powers."
November 17 Concert. E.H. recital at Berkshire Museum Theatre in Pittsfield, MA. (NYT)
November 20 Concert Review. "The lovely voice of Elsie Houston and the show-stopping guitar playing of Vincente Gomez added beauty and excitement to the performance, both in their solo moments and in their joint appearances with the Cole dancers." Walter Terry on the Rainbow Room show. (NYHT).
November 23. E.H. at Rainbow Room. (New Yorker).
November 30. E.H. at Rainbow Room. (New Yorker).
December 4. E.H. run at Rainbow Room ends. Goes on tour. (New Yorker)
December 15 Concert. E.H. ("dynamic young Brazilian soprano") sings with Kansas City Philharmonic in program devoted to Villa-Lobos. (Daily Capital News)
December 19 (Thursday) Radio listing. E.H. appears with Rochester Philharmonic on WJZ at 9:30. With Jose Iturbi (conductor). (NYT)
1941
January 7 gossip item. E.H. seen at the Polish Restaurant (also listed: Alfred de Liagre Jr., Owen Davis and his son, Owen Jr., Nedda Harrigan, Jose Iturbi).
January 17. E.H. at Brevoort Supper Club. (New York Sun).
January 25. E.H. at Brevoort Supper Club. (New Yorker).
January 26 Concert. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford. CT. "Places audience under enthusiastic spell." (Hartford Courant).
February 1 Concert. Joint recital with E.H. and Yella Pessl (Harpsichord) at Town Hall. Benefit for Little Red School House. "The applause was more than friendly" according to Oscar Thompson in the New York Sun. (Virgil Thomson would defend E.H.'s singing to a reader critical of her performance here)
February 1 Night Club Listing. E.H. at Brevoort Supper Club. With Eddie Mayehoff, Gynia Gray and Norbert Faconi.(NYT)
[New Yorker listing: "Elsie Houston singing weird South American folk songs."]
Februrary 8. E.H. at Brevoort Supper Club. (New Yorker).
February 9 Concert. E.H. sings at "a dinner in celebration of the twenty-first annual National Drama Week" given at Hotel Pierre, sponsored by the Drama League of New York. Hiram Sherman is toastmaster.(NYT)
February 15. E.H. run at Brevoort Supper Club ends. (New Yorker).
March 15 news item. E.H. returns from recital in Mexico City. (New York Post).
April 20 profile. Grace Turner profiles E.H. in an article featuring recipes, including Feijoado. Widely syndicated. (Boston Herald).
April 22 Concert. E.H. sings at "A Night in the Americas" presented under the auspices of the Travelers Aid Society, Grand Central Art Galleries. Also in program: Francisco Naya (tenor), Trio Charro, Gil and Maria Luisa Lopez (folk songs). (NYT)
April 25 Concert. E.H. participates in "Red, White, and Blue Ball" for the benefit of the Soldiers and Sailors Club of New York. Also appearing: James Phillips and the "Buccaneer Male Quartet" from "Louisiana Purchase" and James Copp (keyboard comedian). (NYT)
April 27 Record Note. E.H. has song on Victor set: Folksongs of the Americas.(NYT)
May 4 Record Note. E.H. performance at MOMA Brazilian festival in October of "Cancão do Carreiro" released as part of Villa Lobos Set (5 twelve inch records).(NYT) Also favorably reviewed in TIME, May 19.
May 24 profile. John Briggs interviews E.H. in advance of MOMA Coffee Concert. E.H.'s remedy for stage fright is imagining audience as "a beautiful plantation of cabbages." (NY Post)
May 28 Concert. E.H. featured artist at "South American Panorama," part of MOMA Coffee Concert series. Program included "songs from Brazil, Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia"; "gaucho items from Argentina and...Brazilian voodoo numbers." Also on program: Alderson Mowbray (piano), Haitian Rada Group, Belle Rosette (dancer), Grupo Incaico (dancers).(NYT)
(mixed review in Nation, 7-5 issue by BH Haggin)
(Marianne Moore in attendance--"Elsie Houston is such a person, it was hard for me to really listen")
June 4 Concert. E.H. sings three songs at "Cavalcade of American Song" held at Town Hall. Benefit for farm workers. Others: Green Mountain Boys, John and Lucy Allison, Tony Kraber, Leadbelly, Burl Ives, Joshua White, Harold Ambelian, Aunt Molly Jackson, Almanac Singers, Starlight Quartet, Gerald Clark's Calypso Singers.(NYT)
(also reviewed in Daily Worker. Slightly critical of inclusion of E.H.)
June 20 Concert. E.H. soloist on Inter-American day. For "twenty-third Biennial Convention of the National Federation of Music Clubs" in Los Angeles. E.H. engaged as "leading artist" on an Inter-American program.(NYT)
July 24 Concert. E.H. soloist at concert of South American music at National Orchestra in Washington. Alexander Smallens conducts.(NYT)
August 16 Record review in Nation. From abstract: "The delightful art of Elsie Houston, with its delicate phrasing and little cries and glissandos, is to be heard in a volume of Brazilian songs--mostly enjoyable folk-songs, and one composed piece, Ovalle's "Berimbau," which the author find less interesting." (BH Haggin)
August 19 Concert. E.H. participates in Madison Square Garden event: "A National Emergency Rally" sponsored by the "Council for Democracy." Also: Admiral Richard Byrd, Justice Owen Roberts, Carl Sandburg, Alexander Smallens, Walter O'Keefe, Edward Corsi, Gov. Robert Hurley of Conn., Samuel Shore, Mady Christians, Larry Adler.(NYT)
August 24 Record Note in NYT. "Brazilian Songs." 3 twelve inch records. Howard Taubman likes it. "The recording does justice to Miss Houston's wholly delightful and searching interpretations."(NYT)
September 22 Radio listing. E.H. appears on Columbia Lecture Hall. (Augusta Chronicle)
September 25 Concert. E.H. is soloist at National Symphony Orchestra in Washington. With Rudolph Ganz, conductor.(NYT)
October issue of Etude features long interview with E.H.
October 9 Concert. E.H. entertains capacity crowd (1500) at Troy NY Inter-American Week sponsored by Russell Sage College. With Jesus Maria Sanroma, pianist.(NYT)
November 1 Concert. E.H. opens 25th season of the El Paso Symphony Orchestra. (2000 in attendance).
November 12 gossip. Donna Ford in Boston Herald reports that E.H. dislikes baseball and movies.
November 13 & 14 Concert. E.H. soloist at Detroit Symphony Orchestra concert directed by Walter Burle Marx. (NYT)
November 18 Radio listing. E.H. on WJZ "Treasury Hour" (Program (theoretically) available via radiospirits.com). In one segment, "Elsa (sic) Houston introduces Arthur Wittemore and Jack Lowe (duo-pianists)." (RadioGOLDINdex)
November 25 Concert. E.H. presents recital of South American songs and incantations for Musical Club of Hartford. (Hartford Courant).
December 7 Concert. E.H. sings at MOMA concert featuring Juan Jose Castro (composer/conductor). With Miguel Rajcovich, piano, Remo Bolognini, Violinist. Program included: "Tres cantos negros" (Ildefonso Pereda Valdes), "Canciones Cordobesas," (Francisco Luis Bernardez), "La casada infiel," (Garcia Lorca). Howard Taubman notes they were "smoothly sung save for marked effort of top tones."(NYT)
1942
January 7. E.H. returns to Rainbow Room. With Charles Weidman (and his dancers Katherine Litz and Peter Hamilton), Walton & O'Rourke (marionettes), Carmen Cavallaro's orchestra, Clemente's rumba band, featuring Dacita. (New Yorker).
January 14. E.H. at Rainbow Room. (New Yorker).
January 19 Concert. E.H. performs a program of Brazilian folk tunes at Gimbel Brothers department store. Gimbels ad reads: "She's the most glamorous, exotic singing star in all New York. And who wouldn't be with a background like hers, with a repertoire like hers of Brazilian voodoo and jungle chants. Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York all know her. Right now she's enchanting audiences at the Rainbow Room with her weird, wonderful songs."(NYT)
January 21. E.H. at Rainbow Room. (New Yorker).
January 28. E.H. at Rainbow Room. (New Yorker).
February 4. E.H. at Rainbow Room. (New Yorker).
February 11. E.H. at Rainbow Room. (New Yorker).
February 11 Concert. E.H. gives recital at Town Hall (replaces Grace Moore--E.H. released from her early performance at the Rainbow Room to do so). Noel Straus gushes: ("offerings were delivered with rare fascination"). Program included: "The Cherry Tree," Stravinsky songs (about magpie, raven and tchitcher-jatcher), Lully's "Atys," Satie's "Dapheneo," Ravel's "Sur l'herbe," Nin's "Villancico Gallego" plus 14 Brazilian songs: Villa Lobos "Carreiro," "Dansa de Caboclo," Guarnieri's "Sae Arue," Ovalle's "Berimbao," Lorenzo Fernandez "Toada pra voce," and "Tu passaste por este jardin" and "Tayeras." Pablo Miguel, piano.(NYT) [In a syndicated story, this concert framed as a "star is born" moment.]
February 14. E.H. run at Rainbow Room ends. Goes on tour. (New Yorker).
March 8 concert. E.H. in great lounge of the Hollywood Beach hotel, Miami. "She was good, but few of her listeners appreciated her art." (Miami News)
March 20? Incident. EH and her Marcel Courbon arrested as spies in Charleston, SC.
March 23 news item. E.H. lends "Balinese at Work and Play" painting to charity art exhibition. (NY Post).
April 4 profile. Charles B. Driscoll features E.H. in his syndicated "New York Day by Day" column. She addresses Charleston incident. "I must look like the movie version of an international spy."
April 6 Concert. E.H. performs at "all-out" concert for benefit of the Citizens Committee for the Army and Navy. Consuls General of Latin American Republics and their wives attend. With Guiomar Novaes, piano and the Figueroa String and Piano Quartet. (NYT)
April 14 Concert. E.H. performs at Pan American Union for Pan American Day in Washington. With Francisco Mignone, composer/pianist and US Marine band.(NYT)
April 14 (Tuesday) Radio listing. E.H. on WJZ "Pan American Show" at 10:30. with US Marine Band. (broadcast of Washington concert)(NYT)
May 9 Radio Listing. E.H. is guest on Dave Elman's Hobby Lobby (WKBW).
May 24 Concert. E.H. appears at "cocktail party and dance" for "The Women's Division of the Russian War Relief Society." Also appearing: Paula Lawrence, Melvyn Douglas, Rosemary Lane, John Hoysradt, Eve Arden, Sonya Bogart, Zero Mostel, Igor Schwezoff.(NYT)
May 28 Concert. E.H. soloist at concert marking fortieth anniversary of Greenwich House, by The New Chorus under Edgar Varese. (NYT)
June issue of The Inter-American Monthly features long interview with E.H.
June 5 Radio listing. Songs by Elsie Houston (tape available at Library of Congress) 6:45 NBC White
June 17 Concert. E.H. performs at Public Hall, Cleveland for Akron's South American Club. More than 4000 in attendance. (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
June 19 Radio listing. Songs by Elsie Houston (tape available at Library of Congress) 6:45 NBC White
July 3 Radio listing. Songs by Elsie Houston (tape available at Library of Congress) 6:45 NBC White
July 13 Radio listing. Songs by Elsie Houston (tape available at Library of Congress) 6:45 NBC White
July 31 Night Club listing. E.H. at Satire Room in Boston (Boston Herald).
August 5 Night Club listing. E.H. at Satire Room in Boston. (Boston Globe).
August 14 Night Club listing. E.H. at Satire Room in Boston. (Boston Herald).
November 24 Concert. E.H. performs at Smith College. Accompanied by Jean Berger.
December 29 Night Club listing. Ad for New Years Eve at "The Casbah" (112 Central Park South). With Elissa Landi, Paul Taubman, Del Torro, Don Maya and his orchestra. (NTY)
1943
January 16 Concert. E.H. is assisting artist at New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra's young people's concert. ("2000 youngsters seemed to like it"). Rudolph Ganz Conductor. "They applauded the comic song "Chiribirbi qua qua!" so heartily that it had to be repeated. And when the house was darkened so Miss Houston could sing her voodoo songs, lighted only be a few yellow footlights, the children gasped an audible "Oh!" Her drumming and the weird type of song held them spellbound." (NYT)
January 16 Radio Listing. E.H. performance at Young People's Concert broadcast by WABC, 11:05 AM. (NYT)
February 11 Radio listing. Music of the new world/Songs of romanticism and sentimentality. (tape available at Library of Congress) 11:30 NBC. With Margaret Daum, Fred Hufsmith, Phil Duey, Frank Black.
February 14 Concert. E.H. performed at "Night of Americas" at Martin Beck Theatre, in cooperation with the Council for Pan American Democracy. Spoken appearances by Margo (the actress), Donald Ogden Stewart (MC), Vincent Lombardo Toledano (Confederation of Latin-American Workers), Pablo Neruda, Aline MacMahon. Music by Carmargo Guarnieri (pianist), Charros Gil Trio, Tito Guizar and Carmen Castillo, the Latin-American dancers, Olga Coelho, and Dorita and Valero, Alexander Vialta (pianist). (NYT)
February 14 Nightclub News. E.H. signed for an engagement at the Monte Carlo. Notes "whose singing talents are more readily identified with the concert halls." (NYT)
February 20. Ends her life with overdose of sleeping pills. Obituaries in the NYT and New York Herald Tribune on Feb 21.
February 21 Concert scheduled. Pan American Union. E.H.'s name on printed program.
March 7. Concert scheduled. E.H. was to sing at League of Composers concert for Camargo Guarnieri at the Museum of Modern Art.