Shown here a hundred years ago today, in the December 12, 1920, edition of the New York Tribune, is Italian Soprano Mme. Luisa Tetrazzini.

According to the newspaper, she is warbling from her New York apartment to every battleship in New York Harbor, courtesy of the wonderfully ingenious radio telephone.

Mme. Tetrazzini died in 1940.  The dish tetrazzini  is named after her.