Hood plot - Glenwood Cemetery - 2014-09-19 : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Hood plot - Glenwood Cemetery - 2014-09-19 / Tim Evanson
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-継承 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Hood family plot at Glenwood Cemetery in Washington, D.C., in the United States. The grave of Gretchen Hood is flush with the grass.She was born in Washington, D.C., on September 15, 1886. Her father was Edwin Milton Hood, a famous journalist who practically invented diplomatic reporting for the Associated Press and who later founded the National Press Club. (She was later made an honorary member of the Club, and her birthday was celebrated each year with champagne and signing.)She began playing piano at the age of four, and sang in church choirs. On vacation in New Jersey at the age of 11, she kissed 12-year-old Jerome Kern on the beach. At the age of 15, she left for Europe to study singing in London, Paris, and Brussels. In 1912, while visting London, an impetuous Winston Churchill embraced her on the spiral staircase at Parliament. That same trip, she danced with the Prince of Wales.She made her operatic debut in May 1914 as Marguerite in the Aborn English Grand Opera Co. production of "Faust". She made here D.C. debut at the National Theatre a month later. She married J. Alvin Muehleisen on November 7, 1914, but left her husband after one month and 10 days.Early in her career, she was considered as much a pianist as opera singer. For a time, she edited a Greenwich Village music magazine, and later composed poetry as well as songs.She was the first woman to sing on the air when radio station WJZ opened in 1922, and she accompanied Pearl Bailey on a nationwide radio broadcast in 1930. A romance with H.L. Mencken began in 1926 when she jokingly told him that he should run for president and that she'd marry him on Inauguration Day. Their friendship blossomed into love, but Mencken broke her heart by marrying English teacher Sarah Haardt in 1930. Haardt died in 1935, and Mencken attempted to renew the romance. Hood refused to see him.Her home at 1225 Fairmont Street NW was full of art and brick-a-brack, and called "the Little Smithsonian". She sang for presidents, called William Jennings Bryan a neighbor, and entertained Presidents William Howard Taft and Warren G. Harding at her home. The music room in the center of her home was lined with signed autographs of famous admirers.For the last decades of her life, Hood taught voice in her home. This largely ceased in 1968 after the Martin Luther King, Jr. riots left her neighborhood devastated.In the fall of 1977, Hood was hospitalized with cancer and confined to a nursing home in Bethesda, Maryland. She died there on May 2, 1978. Her memorabilia was bequeathed to the National Press Club.For her epitaph, she asked: "Here lies one who had many enemies. Thank God. Suppose they had liked me? Good God." (Her wish was ignored.) |
| 撮影日 | 2014-09-19 14:45:52 |
| 撮影者 | Tim Evanson , Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA |
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| 撮影地 | Washington, District of Columbia, United States 地図 |
| カメラ | NIKON D7100 , NIKON CORPORATION |
| 露出 | 0.004 sec (1/250) |
| 開放F値 | f/8.0 |
| 焦点距離 | 20 mm |