Word: alda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Frances Alda Queena Mario
...Hotel Astor, but he likes Milan better. He always dines in his own apartment, eats little and preferably Italian food. Like Lord Rothermere and Il Duce (see page 18), he never smokes. He sleeps five hours a night, with his dog Pictiu, a Brussels griffon given him by Frances Alda, beside him in a basket. He shaves himself-and with a safety razor...
...Frances Alda (soprano, wife of Giulio Gatti-Casazza, czar of the Metropolitan Opera Company) has no children, wants some. Said she: "In a few months I shall ask Miss Spence of the Spence School [Manhattan] to find me two adorable babies. I do not believe in the heredity jinx. I ask only that the babies be intelligent and healthy. I'll want them, regardless of parentage or legitimacy...
...list of titles, dates, and speakers is as follows: January 20, "Louise", "The Jewels of the Madonna", and "La Gioconda", R. Y. Robison; January 23, "Alda", "A Witch of Salem", and "Romeo and Juliet", Professor Spalding; January 26, "Tannhauser", "Sappho", and Samson et Dalila", W. S. Smith; January 30, "Carmen", "Lohengrin", and "Tosca", Stuart Mason; February 2, "Martha", "Rigoletto", and "La Traviata", R. C. Robinson...
This year it rose upon Frances Alda, Beniamino Gigli, Giuseppe de Luca, Adam Didur, upon dancer a la Russe Adolph Bolm. In former years it has risen upon Caruso, Ruffo, Martinelli, Galli-Curci, upon famed and glorious chanteur a la Russe Chaliapin...