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Tenor Beniamino Gigli, in a blue smock, stood in "Magic City"-a metropolis erected in gold and crimson papier-mache in the Grand Central Palace, Manhattan. Caroling snatches of famous arias to attract the pennies of the crowd, he sold leather novelties for charity.
Eliminating with long shears great pieces of libretto, ballets, choruses, recitatives, invocations clouded with Italian melody and Egyptian shamanism, the Hippodrome, Manhattan, last week, presented Verdi's Aïda in tabloid form. The main plot remained, also the most tamed of the arias. The performance lasted 30 minutes...
In March, President Rafael Lopez Gutierrez died. His term of office had expired on Feb. 1, but he had kept himself in office by establishing a dictatorship. Immediately after the President's demise, Generals Arias and Bueso seized power and constituted themselves dictators (TIME, Mar. 31). Thereupon Generals Tiburcio...
Hundreds of operas are composed every year, complete with millions of separate notes, arias for sopranos and tenors, overtures, choruses, ballets, stage directions. But few of these are ever produced. Still fewer find their way into the hearts of the listening multitude and into the permanent repertoires of the great...
The Honduran incident, which excited much comment owing to the previous American occupation of Haiti, was caused by the fighting in Tegucigalpa when General Juan Angelo Arias and General Francisco Bueso- who seized dictatorial powers on the death of former President Rafael Lopez Gutierrez-were driven from the capital by...