Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1936 — Page 13

Street Urchin Wins Place as

Awed by Her Success.

BY MARY MARGARET M’BRIDE NEA Service Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—A story to farm the heart is that of Natalie Bodanskava, who, as a small hazeleyed tomboy romped through her native East Side streets singing with the hurdy-gurdys, learning her operatic arias from an occasionally heard phonograph record and now at 23 is a duly-signed Metropolitan ,Opera star, Even Natalie, who has been accustomed to take wonderful hap.penings with a certain gamin Aassurance, is a little awed by the latest miracle. “They called me on fhe phone on a day when I was feeling low,” she related. “‘Congratulations!’ somebody said. ‘For what?’ I groused. ‘You're in the Metrepolitan now!’ the voice said. I sat in my struck by lightning. utes I sat, not moving, realize, I shouted into the They said it again, .. Protege of Mme. Sembrich his was all very the time that Natalie, sixteen, was taken by a kind woman from the Neighborhood Music School Settlement House to sing for Mme. Marcella Sembrich. “lI remember I ‘wanted to only | arias, no scales I scales,” said Natalie “The arias I'd learned from phonograph records; I thought Mme. Sembrich’s little. gold chairs were wonderful, but I didn't in the least what a great woman she was and what an honor she was doing me in listening to me. Mme. Sembrich, however, impressed with the little Sider’'s talent. the girl sing for Curtis School in Philadelphia. Natalie was excited about the trip for

then barely

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was East

she had never ridden’ on the train | : running about | = eXamining the seats and was §specially Impressed with the expensiy e~ |

before. | She kept

ness of food in the dining ear. Among the famous ones for whom _sHe sang on this occasion was Josef Hoffman, the pianist. The committee asked her what she wished to sing for them and she airily asked them what they would like to hear. She said sing whatever they wished. Finally she did the waltz song from Romeo and Juliet. Sung in French

“I sang it in my own French, all |

‘trays beans,’ you know, for I'd had no teaching.” Natalie explained. “Nobody laughed out loud then, but they have told me since that they | never heard anything funnier in their lives.” All the same, Natalie got into the Curtis School and that summer Mme. Stmbrich took the girl her summer home at Lake George | and gave her. lessons. Nat .alie’s | first great success as a student at | the Philadelphia. school came w hen, | 10 days before the open

phia Grand Opera Companrry, was given the role of Blonda. She got excellent notices and | after that had a few roles each year in the opera company’s productions. She] also sang with the Philadelphia Orchestra. After she finished schooly she got a job at Radio City in New York. It was through the Nation- | al Music League and particularly | the encouragement of Mrs. Harold | Vincent Milligan that she tried out for the Metropolitan. *1 never felt! so small in my as ‘when I went

“life to see the direc- |

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Natalie Bodanskaya Still

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ing of | Seraglio, produced by the Philadel- | tor, Edward Johnson, and sat there she | in the opera thinking of all the

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Herman Sielken (right) is “arrangements chairman for the President's Day luncheon of the Woman's Department Club Sept. 23 at the clubhouse.

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Misses Taggart to Give Dinner Party for Dorothy DuPuy

Misses Mona. and Elizabeth Tag- | gart, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Alex |

gart; Mr. and: Mrs. Taggart: Mr. | and Mrs. Alex L. Taggart Jr., Mr. ; : | and Mrs. William Wiggins, Mr. and Taggart, are to be hostesses to-| | Mrs. Atkins and Lg Coleman night at a dinner party at the In- | Atkins, dianapolis Athletie Club in honor | Miss Fitton entertained with a of Miss Dorothy DuPuy. Miss DuPuy | luncheon Tuesday for Miss DuPuy. is to be married to the hostesses’ | TTT cousin, William T. Taggart Jr. Grand Rapids, Mich., at 8:30 p. m. Saturday at the home of her par- | ents, Mr. and Mrs. William A. Atkins, Golden Hill. Following dinner, to the Severin Skyroom for ting. The Misses Taggart, members of |

of Jane Blake the bridal party, are to entertain | :

the other attendants, Mrs. Henry | Miss Jane Blake entertained Newell Beers, Miss DuPuy's sister, | Stephens College classmates at a

of Long Island, N. Y., matron of | luncheon today at her home. Miss honor; Misses Estelle Rauh Burpee, | Betty Pringle

Jane Picton Letze yjitier Jaw id graduated from Stephens at Colum rown ridesmaids onn ie = Yonkers, N. Y.; Joseph Ayres, | is, Mo., last June, has been visiting land; James Griswold, Chattanooga, | M5 Blake and was a guest, Tenn; Richatd Deupree, Cincinnati, Ro ers nn Beity Pearce, and George Wanty, Grand Rapids. Eo Marsha uth Osborne, DeCharles DuPuy, brother of the light Morrison, Mary L. Bradshaw, bride-to-be, is to arrive with Mrs.| Margaret Wells, ‘Harriet Badgley DuPuy, formerly Miss Lois Gra-|and Eleanor Coldwell. ham, from their home in Greens- | Miss Blake is to motor to Columburg, Pa., by plane tomorrow. They | Pia Sunday with her parents, Dr. are to be guests at the bridal din-| 2nd Mrs. Robert W. Blake, and Miss

ner to be given tomorrow night at | | Pringle.

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guests are to go | danc- |

Other guests at the Taggart | party are to include Mr. and Mrs. William ‘T. Taggart, Grand Rapids; Mr. and Mrs. Kendall Mills, Saginaw, Mich.; Joseph Taylor, » Roches | ter, N. Y.; Miss Nadine Marble, Greenwich, Conn.; Miss Helen Tag-

great ones,” Miss Bodanskaya declared. “Who am I to be here, a little old nobody?” I asked myself, who had so often sat in the highest heavens of the gallery and heard the great ones sing?” | Miss Bodanskaya is, she claimed, the world’s worst cook but a good roller skater and a wonderful elec- | trical wirer. She is engaged to a { young man who teaches philosophy | at the University of Chicago and | firmly believes that it is possible to | have both a successful career and | a happy marriage. i

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