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...Chicago the passing of Samuel Insull's Civic Opera made it look as if the Orchestra would be left alone in the musical field. But last week a popular-priced performance of Aida drew 10,000 people to the Chicago Stadium, home of hockey games, prize fights, the late Republican and Democratic Conventions. Manhattan's Maurice Frank staged the production (the first of 20), used the Civic Opera orchestra and chorus, one piece of scenery. Impresario Frank is not attempting to solicit the patronage of Ryersons, McCormicks, Swifts and their peers. In his excitable way, he likes...
...York's Polo Grounds one night last week, Aida the slave girl stood near the home plate, sang of her love and terror, was at last pent up to die with her soldier lover. There were no animals at all, the supers were ludicrously spindly-shanked and awkward, the scenery an arrangement of posts and draperies which seemed often to confuse the performers. Nonetheless many a Manhattanite had journeyed tediously to 155th Street to see the second U. S. operatic performance of lissome, dark Helen Gahagan, Belasco actress (Tonight or Never) turned singer. New Jersey-born, Brooklyn-raised, Actress...
...latest civic-minded Emery was in Europe last week so she did not see the enthusiastic people milling into the Zoo each night at dusk. She did not hear the ovation which greeted short, stocky Isaac Van Grove when he took the conductor's stand at the opening Aida. Nor did she read his statement: "When I came to Cincinnati this time I felt as though I were coming to a shrine. I could understand the emotion of the Mohammedan who makes once in his lifetime a pilgrimage to Mecca...
...Aida and Martha were given throughout the first of the Zoo's ten-week season...
...Aida, Frederick Jagel, Metropolitan Opera tenor, made his Cincinnati debut and when his first aria rang far out over the Zoo grounds the wisest of the monkeys knew that another season was safely under way, scratched their whiskers eagerly for the intermission peanut feast...