BOOTH, Margery Callas Signed Score Collection of twenty autographed items

Collection of twenty autographed items of leading opera singers

and 1936-1937

Minor silvering on photo borders

Black-and-white photograph signed by him (a screen shot from a film)

Autograph music quote from his opera "Lodoletta" (1917) with six bars of music

BOOTH, Margery Callas Signed Score Collection of twenty autographed itemsMargery Myers Booth (1906 1952) was a British mezzo soprano who emigrated to Germany during WWII and became a spy. Arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 and tortured, she was later released by the liberating army. Not being recognized for what she did after her return to London, Myers Booth emigrated to New York where she died of breast cancer in 1952, at age 46. Rare signed postcard photograph, shown as Dryade in Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos dated