HELEN TRAUBEL - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED CO-SIGNED BY: ROBERTA LINN - HFSID 22018

HELEN TRAUBEL and ROBERTA LINN
Both have signed autograph notes to radio/TV host George Sanders.
Autograph Notes signed: "Thank you George Sanders -/for a wonderful time while/being interviewed. I loved it!/Helen Traubel", 7¾X10 album leaf with 3½x1½ newspaper clipping attached at lower middle (two surfaces). Also signed on verso: "To George -/I just wanted you to know/to me you'll always look good./Honest!/Robert Linn". B/w newspaper photo of Linn affixed below signature. American soprano HELEN TRAUBEL (1899-1972) was considered one of the finest Wagnerian sopranos of her day, especially in the role of Brünnhilde. Traubel, who had made her debut with the St. Louis Symphony in 1923, was offered a position with New York's Metropolitan Opera in 1926, but she turned it down to continue her studies. She would later sing with the Met, and Traubel was also a popular recording and radio artist, and she appeared on Broadway, in films and on television. Her appearances on TV variety shows (on which she sang popular music as well as opera) led to her being fired from the Met by Rudolph Bing in 1953. Traubel published her autobiography, St. Louis Woman, in 1959. Singer ROBERTA LINN was Lawrence Welk's Champagne Lady from 1949 to 1954, and the first one to appear on his television show. Linn is a veteran nightclub performer, in venues from Las Vegas to Sea World to the Copacabana. Nominated for 5 Emmys, she won one for her own TV show, Café Continental. Light show-through of ink on verso. Jagged at right edge. Otherwise, fine condition.