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Updated: October 1, 2025
She doesn't want to come; I can read between the lines of her letter she's fighting it. But you see, Auchinloss is a great man. He's been invited to conduct his own symphony at its American premiere and naturally has taken this opportunity to bring about her American debut. You can imagine my parents' pride." "I can see it.
Then Trieste took the piano, running downward an avalanche of quick chords, the sepia-outlined head of Auchinloss gone meanwhile from the stage and down somewhere in the sea of dimness that rolled through the auditorium. Lilly could see his profile etched into the twilight.
They say he heard Paula Anchutz singing her baby to sleep one night as he happened to pass her cottage, and he rang her door bell." "Auchinloss discovered Paula Anchutz!" "He decided her greatness after a few bars. Some day I'll read you Millie's letter home about her audition in Vienna.
Millie used to write that around the opera house in Vienna, when Auchinloss started rubbing his hands together after an audition, everybody used to have the smelling salts ready." "Miss Neugass you've heard me practice. Tell me the truth! Do you think my ambition is bigger than my voice? Tell me as you would your sister."
Why, your father can't keep his face straight he's always sort of smiling, slyly, to himself." "Their daughter, Millie du Gass, coming home with an opera triumph back of her in every European city, the great Auchinloss himself coming to conduct for her American debut. That is the kind of homecoming they're looking forward to and the kind I must make possible for them.
"Of course," she said, "you know about my sister and Auchinloss." "You mean " "Oh, I realize everybody knows that is, everybody except my parents." "I didn't " "That's because you don't belong yet! Wait until you've worked your way in a bit. I've known it long enough. Two years." "Then she you " "She was a baby when she left, Miss Parlow.
"I will!" It was just before midnight, after a four-hour period of waiting in the pink mull dress, when came the summons which brought Lilly into the presence of Felix Auchinloss. Cramped from the long period of taut waiting, she was so dry of throat that in spite of constantly sipped water she could only gulp her reply to Miss Neugass's knock and eagerly inserted head. "Quick!
I'm to be a secret until next season, maestro cried and Auchinloss Lilly, you need never be afraid for me you hear you hear never! We measured each other he called me wonder-child. Me Zoe. Lilly it's happened ... and you did it. Lilly, kiss me." "You darling. You're like a queen. All the little lives that go into the making of your cloth of gold, yet each proud to be ever so humble a party to it!"
"We got more only last night from her in 'Traviata. They pulled her carriage after the opera. Felix Auchinloss went special from Vienna to conduct her. That's her picture there and there and there. Say, ain't that a coinstidance you should be a voice!" Lilly stood regarding one of the framed photographs.
A little girl aged four had once been found battered and dead beside a farm hand's dinner pail in St. Louis County! Suddenly all the faces she could conjure began to form staring circles around her the Visigoths. Minnie Dupree. Ida Blair. Auchinloss. Phonzie. Phonzie!
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