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...Amelita Galli-Curci needed no advertising after 1916 when she made a memorable debut with the Chicago Opera Company. In the years that followed, her singing rang through most of the civilized world, earned her the rating of the world's greatest coloratura soprano. She sometimes sang a little off pitch and she was not a good actress but her beautifully pure, light voice, her vitality and the lean, aquiline face of an Italian aristocrat got her $4,500 for a single concert. For a comparatively small salary she stayed with Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company until...
...years what she affectionately called a "potato" grew in the neck of Mme Amelita Galli-Curci, forcing her to adjust her coloratura soprano to 50% less wind volume. Last week in Chicago, while the onetime prima donna trilled tones and scales to show the effects on her voice, surgeons working with a local anesthetic successfully cut away a 6½-oz. goitre...
...views held by the founders of the church, and from which the General Convention had departed. . . . One other item I cannot pass without comment, namely the claiming of Goethe, Wagner, Berlioz, Balzac, Coleridge, Tennyson, Browning, Carlyle, Emerson, Thoreau, Victor Hugo, Helen, Henry James, Keller, Elbert Andrew Carnegie, Hubbard, Maeterlinck, Amelita Galli, Yeats, Curci and Eddie Guest as being "in formal or spiritual fellowship" with the New Church. All of the above and many more modern writers and philosophers have had some contact with Swendenborg's writings but, with the exception of Galli-Curci and Helen Keller, none...
...members. Contemplation in a New Church church in London inspired Poet William Blake to write his "Songs of Innocence." In formal or spiritual fellowship Swedenborgians also claim Goethe, Wagner, Berlioz, Balzac, Coleridge, Tennyson, Browning, Carlyle, Emerson, Thoreau, Victor Hugo, Henry James, Andrew Carnegie, Maeterlinck, Yeats, Helen Keller, Elbert Hubbard, Amelita Galli-Curci and Eddie Guest...
...Amelita Galli-Curci, 45, who still sings profitably in South Africa and India where she has no youthful coloratura rivals...