Word: alda
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soprano Frances Alda (real name: Fanny Adler) announced that this season would be her last at the opera house. Aged 46, no longer shapely or spry, she began a radio career by singing Madame Butterfly for a plumbing advertisement...
...Last week, however, the ban was lifted and beginning Saturday evening. Nov. 16, a series of six condensed versions will go on the U. S. air?to advertise American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp.? Madame Butterfly will be first, with Conductor Gennaro Papi, Soprano Frances Alda. Contralto Merle Alcock. Tenors Mario Chamlee and Alfred O'Shea. Baritone Pasquale Amato. Tosca will be presented in December, The Girl of the Golden West in January, Manon Lescaut in February, the so-called tryptich (Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi) in March, La Boheme in April. Deems Taylor, musical handyman, will explain...
Spanish Flyers. Queen Victoria of Spain last week gave a formal luncheon to Commander Ramon Franco, Julio Ruiz de Alda, Eduardo Gonzales Gallarza. Spanish trans-atlantic aspirants, and their English rescuers (TIME, July 1, 8). A stayaway: Mechanic Sergeant Pedro Madariaga. Reason: Spanish court rules permit only members of the nobility or persons of high official rank to attend formal royal functions...
Divorced. Giulio Gatti-Casazza, hirsute & dynamic impresario of the Metropolitan Opera Company of Manhattan; by Frances Alda, famed Metropolitan soprano, on the ground of incompatibility, in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. "We are the best of friends," stated Soprano Alda, "and I shall continue happily at the Metropolitan under his direction...
Sued for Divorce. Giulio Gatti-Casazza, famed hirsute & diplomatic impresario of the Metropolitan Opera Company of Manhattan; by Frances Alda, dusky soprano; after 18 years of wedded life...