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...Manhattan, breathed its last, and songsters, scenery, dancers and orchestra?enough to fill some 30 Pullman cars?were packed off on two special trains for Atlanta* for the annual week of opera. Southerners socially and musically inclined were ready for them, flocked from all over the countryside to hear Aida, with Rosa Ponselle and Giovanni Martinelli; Don Quichotte, with Feodor Chaliapin; La Bohême, with Lucrezia Bori, Beniamino Gigli, Antonio Scotti; Pagliacci, with Mary Lewis, Armand Tokatyan, Lawrence Tibbett; Jewels of the Madonna, with Florence Easton and Martinelli; Lucia, with Marion Talley; Tannhauser, with Rudolf Laubenthal; II Trovatore...
...plucked geese hanging from the ceiling, we convey almost nothing to the reader. Perhaps it would be better to mention the ballet dancer whose knees kept letting her down onto the stage, or the singer who turned a back flip on the final note of the famous aria from Aida, and started clogging directly afterward. But all in all it is hard to express the true spirit of matters bughouse, for Mr. Anderson has done it in such a variety of ways...
Carmela Ponselle (of Meriden, Conn.) made her début in Aida, while her sister Rosa sat applauding in a box. For the first time since the De Reszké brothers, two members of one family are Metropolitan stars...
...TIME, Nov. 2) went on with its season. Maria Jeritza as Tosca, lying in a lovely heap upon the floor of Scarpia's apartments, delivered a moving and irrelevant commentary upon love and art; Mme. A Ida (wife of Giulio Gatti-Casizza) appeared in La Bohème; Aida was given in Brooklyn...
...summer workmen have hammered, walls have risen, grass has sprouted in Baltimore where the Wilmer Institute - greatest eye-research laboratory in the world- was being erected, equipped. Last week it was finished. Its fund- begun by Mrs. Aida de Acosta Root in gratitude to Dr. William Holland Wilmer, who saved her sight (TIME, Feb. 23)-is now $3,000,000. Dr. Wilmer is in complete charge. Rich and poor may go there for healing and only the rich will...