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Wednesday Evening.--Alda Verdi...
...Scandals of 1923. Another rich, variegated, almost overpoweringly sumptuous review-full of jewels, revolvers and pulchritudinous squablets. Costumes, costumes, costumes-choruses, choruses, choruses. Much beauty and little wit-the Tiller girls-Tom Patricola-Johnny Dooley-Delyle Alda-the animated curtain from the Folies Bergeres with chorines suspended in it quite literally, by the skin of their teeth-a Jewel Shop number calculated by its extravagant gorgeousness to drive impecunious husbands quite insane- a number on Prohibition-a resurrection of Tut-Ankh-Amen with everything there but the fly that bit Lord Carnarvon...
Opera House.--San Carlo Opera Company. Monday, "Boheme"; Tuesday, "Cavalleria" and "Pagliacci"; Wednesday matinee, "Carmen"; evening, "Barber of Seville"; Thursday, "Othello"; Friday, "Alda"; Saturday matinee, "Butterfly"; evening, "Trovatore...
...Alda, surely no longer in her first-youth, sang with a freshness and a warmth that many younger (and more popular) singers might envy. Her songs, Marx's "Marienlied" and "Hat die Liebe dich beruehrt", were adequate vehicles; "Vissi d'Arte" was sung with unusual feeling and understanding...
Next week: a symphony of Dvorak yet unheard here, pieces from Strauss and Rimsky-Korsakoff, and songs of Korngold and Marx fill the program. The soloist is Frances Alda...