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...almost $3,000 a performance), the Met's managers tried many substitutes but found nobody who could fill the bill. Last week Tenor Gigli was welcomed back to the Met by a shouting throng. Critics still deplored his garlicky mannerisms and found the part of Radames in Aida unsuited to him, but had to admit that Tenor Gigli's singing was the finest Italian tenoring they had heard since he last sang in Manhattan...
...Marche MilitaireSchubert *Overture to "Edmont" Beethoven *Liebestraum Liszt-Herbert *"Aida" Fantasia Verdi Austrian Peasant Dancers Schonherr *Meditation from "Thais" Massenet *Bolero Ravel *"By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Strauss *"Night and Day" Porter *American Patrol Meacham *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
Plans for a large and noisy demonstration behind the scenes on Saturday when 104 "supers", 52 of them Harvard students, will be used in "Aida," were denied last night by John S. Morgan '39, in charge of all the "supers," but he said that better working conditions were being sought...
Seventy-five students are acting as "supers" at the Boston Opera House this week where the Metropolitan Opera Company is presenting a ten day "season." Ranging in number from five in "La Boheme" to 52 in this Saturday's production of "Aida" they stand on the stage in mob scenes and where extras are needed, and get paid a dollar a performance. The following hold jobs...
Boasting of the only alto glockenspiel of college bands in the East, the Tiger band is going to be augmented by two Aida trumpets borrowed from the Metropolitan Opera House. Heralds with the proper ceremony will blow a triumphant fanfare with these trumpets before each Princeton game...