1279) Margaret Huston Carrington

Margaret Huston Carrington (1877 - 1942). Canadian singer and voice teacher.
She studied in Paris, London, Germany and Italy, with leading singers and teachers of the day, including Jean de Reszke, Emma Calvé and Nellie Melba.
In 1903 she began a career as a recitalist, but at the height of it an accident permanently injured her vocal cords (she choked on a fishbone). At the outbreak of First World War she returned to New York, where, in 1915, she married William Carrington, a wealthy, Toledo-born retired grain merchant, twnty-two years her senior.
She then devoted herself to teaching. Her students included numerous opera singers and actors, such as her brother, actor and singer Walter Huston (father of director John Huston), Alred Lunt, Orson Welles and Lillian Gish. 

- "Of medium height, solidly built, with red-gold hair and compelling blue eyes..."  https://books.google.fr/books…

- "She had red-gold hair and blue eyes that could stare a pupil into compliance."  https://books.google.fr/books…