Dispute Leads To Long Friendship
When film players want to confide in someone it is usually an unexperson to whom they go, as those fa milliar with the strange ci tv of Hollywood well know. Usually these persons are very close 'to the ttar; often they are relatives, but just as often not. Invariably th ay ere persons whom the s.tr has known a long time, and whose judgment the star A woman named Grace Newell knows more of th" secret hopes, ambitions and disappointments of Ju cotte MacDonald than any other person She is Jeanette’c singing teacher. Miss Newell went to Hollywood with the star seven years ego when she appeared in her first picture. She has remained with Jeanette even since, giving her daily lessons and working with her on every ■song. Eddy’s Anger Turned to Reason. "Like Miss MacDonald, Nelson Eddy confides in his singing teacher, Dr. Edouard Lippe. Eddy Lippe to Hollywood with him when he first ctarted in pictures. They have worked together ever since on every detail in a star’s career. It is strange, but they met unuer unplea:' nt circumstances. When Eddy was a young singer in opera, he was surprised to have a stranger approach him and say, “You have a nice voice, but you don’t know how to use it.’’ Eddy turned away in ranger. That night he thought the matter over, contrac ed Lippe, who was the man, and asked his advice. Lippe, a brilliant musician and singer, was not himself physically able to achieve singing heights, and so became Eddy’s tutor.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume V, Issue 457, 26 June 1937, Page 3
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262Dispute Leads To Long Friendship Taranaki Central Press, Volume V, Issue 457, 26 June 1937, Page 3
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