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...AMELITA M. MURPHY Abingdon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 9, 1953 | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

...Amelita Galli-Curci, famed opera star of the '20s, turned up at the Met opening in Los Angeles, surprised a lot of people who had heard little of her for years. Still tiny (shoe size: 2½B) and bubbly at 58, she confided to an interviewer the secret of her durability as a star (1909-30): "I didn't force my voice. I had sense enough not to touch the capital, only the income . . ." For the past eleven years she has been living quietly in an ornate Los Angeles mansion with her husband, Singing Teacher Homer Samuels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Working Class | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...Cosmic Director" ("who writes His own plays") ordered him to move on to the U.S. Soon he became a popular lecturer, initiated "tens of thousands of Americans" -to whom he dedicated his first volume of poems, Whispers from Eternity, which appeared in 1929 with an introduction by Opera Singer Amelita Galli-Curci...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Here Comes the Yogiman | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...generation. The nearest thing to such a voice that this generation of U.S. operagoers is familiar with is the neat, flutelike warbling of Lily Pons. She is the capable but hardly startling descendant of a great line beginning with Jenny Lind and including Adelina Patti, Nellie Melba, Luisa Tetrazzini, Amelita Galli-Curci. Measuring Korjus against the yardstick of their memories, old-timers placed her somewhere near the Pons mark, admired the warmth, vibrancy and agility of her voice, which reminded them slightly of Melba...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Marvelous Miliza | 10/30/1944 | See Source »

...Soprano Amelita Galli-Curci; Tenor Enrico Caruso; Baritones Nelson Eddy, Lawrence Tibbett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music's Moneybags | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

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