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Show opera house. Miss llemmi was with the Tivoli at the time of the great earthquake. earth-quake. MUs Hemtnl then beer, be-er, me prima t'ouna of the Ran Francisco Opera Company, touring to all the principal western cities an 1 a,p-pearing a,p-pearing in more than seventy different : operas. MISS AIDA HEM Ml SOPRANO. . fS '11 v",-V,-v.' ,,V--,vTii:.1- Miss Hemmi wa born iu Brooklyn, N. Y., moving to Chicago when p'he was a youn$ girl. She progressed rapidly and wus sent abroad to study under Mme. L'nger-Haupt in the Conservatory Con-servatory of LepFic. On her return to Chicago she sang ln St. Patrick's Cathedral Ca-thedral first, and then went to ML Sinai, where the received the highest salary over paid for singing one service ser-vice on Sunday. She. of course, engaged en-gaged in concert and oratorio work as well. From New York Miss Ileraml went to the Tivoli Opera Company at San Francisco as prima donna. This organization or-ganization has graduated many great singers, Alice Neilseu being one of them. Tetrazzinni was also Introduced Intro-duced to the American public at thla |