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...Caruso and his operatic antics in your Oct. 11 issue, I believe top honors should go to his trickery in a performance of La Bohème. Before the death scene, he removed two of the rollers from the ancient iron bed. . . . Every time the consumptive Mimi (Frances Alda) dared move, the bedstead shuddered, groaned, and gave every sign of collapsing...
...Alda finally gave up, turned her back on the audience, and stuffed the sheets in her mouth to stop the hysterics. . . . For this and other jokes during the evening, each artist was fined $100. They agreed it was worth...
Sopranos Frances Alda, Lillian Nordica; Tenors Alessandro Bonci, Charles Hackett, Edward Johnson...
Died. Gennaro Papi, 54, conductor of Italian repertoire for the Metropolitan Opera; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. He joined the Metropolitan in 1913 as assistant to Toscanini, coached stars of opera's "golden age"-Caruso, Scotti, Geraldine Farrar, Frances Alda. He was made conductor in 1916, served in the post for ten years, returned to it ten years later from conducting the Chicago and Ravinia Operas. He died a few hours before he was to have conducted Traviata, his first opera of this season...
From a Manhattan gutter 230 sparkling diamonds and rubies caught the eye of an honest laborer, who turned the brooch over to police. It had been dropped by longtime Metropolitan Opera Soprano Frances Alda...