Word: amelita
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University of Baltimore, 13 undergraduates were inspired to form an Anti-Suicide Club, with the powerful motto: "Live and let live". . . . President Raymond Allen Pearson of the University of Maryland submitted: "Abnormal living is causing this chain of student suicides . . . imitation of what they see in their elders". . . . Amelita Galli-Curci, operatic soprano, went to Chicago, where her press agent inspired her to shrill: "It would be better if more young people loved music. . . . There would not be so many suicides". . . . Sociologist Rudolph Binder of New York University submitted that economic pressure was to "blame," citing suicidal phenomena during hard...
...rising fame of Chicago opera, of such artists as Edith Mason, Mary Garden, Rosa Raisa, Cyrena Van Gordon, Charles Marshall, Tito Schipa. It is true that Chicago has no Rosa Ponselle, no Maria Jeritza, no Gigli, no Martinelli, and that it dispensed with the high-priced Amelita Galli-Curci; but often the Chicago operas more than equal the Metropolitan in vitality and freshness. Mr. Insull, being both quiet and reticent, undoubtedly neglected to tell Her Majesty that he is the Tsar of Chicago opera, that he dashes off to Europe in search of these artists, that he recently collected...
...performances at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, and tour from coast to coast in a new series of concerts. What caused Chaliapin's decision may have been anything. It may have been Director Samuel Insull, whose alleged mismanagements have been loudly decried (TIME, Feb. 9). Last year, Amelita Galli-Curci, with a thin treble indication of wrath, similarly left the Chicago Company...
...banks of the Colorado River, borderline of Arizona, Amelita Galli-Curci, was halted by Arizona authorities. She was only one of thousands so stopped...
...Amelita Galli-Curci sang farewell. Thunderous applause mixed with tears of regret at her departure-not so much for her brilliant coloratura airs, bedizened with strings of pearly scale-flights, as for the glamor which the purity of her tone cast over her simplest encore-ditties. That was perhaps most people's idea of what the "song of the nightingale" should...