The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-01-06
NOTED SINGER DIES
OF BLOOD POISONING
TransfusiOns From Husband,
DR.. Rambaud, Fail to Save
Nine. Gerville-Reache.
WAS A "FIND" OF CALVES

Nine Geryille-Reache, the contralto,
in private life the wife OF DR.. George O.
Rambaud director OF the Pasteur In
stltute, died yesterday In Roosevelt Hos
pltal She had been suffering for some
time with a form OF blood poisoning that
bafiied the physicians. DR. Rambaud
submitted to two blood transfusions, the
second on last Saturday which for time
gave the physicians hopes OF saving her
life But although the patient gained
slightly after each TRANSMISSION she each
time suffered relapse.
Nine Gervllle-Reache often referred
10 in earlier days as the stage godchild
of Nine Emma Calve first came to the
notice OF Calve IN 1899. Nine. Rosina
Laborde who had sung with great success
at the opera and was celebrated music
teacher In Paris. held recital In her
studio about fifteen years ago. and among
the guests invited by Nine Laoorde was
Calve, who had been one OF her pupils
Among the pupils who sang that after
noon was Jeanne Gerville -Reache, young
/ girl who had been born seventeen years
before I'm the province OF Basque Her
| remarkable contralto singing was APP
/ plauded enthusiastically by Calve, ana
| after the recital Nine. Calve had Hehr'
10 heart talk with her and in which
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the operate stage
Her father. onae Governor Of Guadalupe,
and her mother an aristocrauc Spaniarn'
Objected to a stage career, however. IN
time the now enthusiastic girl won he'
| parents over TO the Idea and IN her
eighteenth year she became pup. U'
Mime. Pauline Viardot Garcia, the famous
teacher Not long after this Nine. Ger
VILE -Reache appeared at the Opere
Coniaue. where she made her debut a.
Orpheus in "Orpheus and Eurydiee.
In 1907 she was engaged by oscar
Hammerstein to sing at his Manhattan
Opera House Despite many rumor'
from time TO time that Nine Gerville'
Reache was to join the Metropoiitaf
opera House forces, she remained under
Mr. Hammerstein's directlon-creatnl
during this period tho part OF Clvtem'
nestrd IN Richard Strauss "Elektra' II
the winter OF 1910 among other achieVe
ments-untl trouble arose between MI
Hammerstein and the singer in the sprinl
OF that year. when she announced tina
she would not sign with Mr.. Hammer
stein for the lsle-li season
I, While at the Manhattan Opera Hous'
she sang in Carmen" "Pelleas and Nell
sande," LA Navarraise' and "Samso'
and Delilah,' -, A.,
Dinnel 10 sing in Chicago and Philadel
. mia and at tho Metropolitan Opera House
She also made concert tour through IN
country. She was injured In an automo
Z bile accident near PouEhkeepsie two year
ago and later gave there song reclta
Tor the benefit of the institution wher
she was treated for her injuries. She !
10 the mother OF two children.
/ on November II. 1909. Nine, Gervihe
n Reache was secretly married after oTie
r courtship TO DR. George Gibier Rainoauo
r director OF the Pasteur Institute mere
z "A few friends were told shortly after tina
\ the couple had been married by a Jer-c
o Justice of the peace, but the public kne,
Q nothing OF IL until January Fl OF the To-
Iovnnr year DIR. Rambaud previousl
o had been married 10 Miss Lulu Fowle
l. Rryan OF Houston, Tex, from whom h
2 was divorced few months before IN
- doctors marriage 10 Nine. Gervlls
Il ReaChe.
After her marriage to Or. Ramoau
I, Nine Gerville- Reache continued the us
k of that name for stage purposes