Word: bassos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Joseph MacPherson?25-year-old basso from Nashville, Tenn...
When gay dogs get together there is apt to be noise. Last week 2,261 of them got together in Madison Square Garden, and the occasion was not a quiet one. Yaps filled the air, woofs, yowls, basso bur-wurs and tender tenor barks. Dogs were benched in neat interminable rows, undergoing the attentions of their henchmen or staring with melancholy eyes upon the crowd. Bitches sulked in their wire boudoirs. It was the Golden Jubilee show of the Westminster Kennel Club...
...announcing Chaliapin's forthcoming operatic venture (TIME, Dec. 28, p. 24), you mention the dear basso as the Barber in Rossini's musical comedy. Chaliapin plays Don Basilio, the Music-master, not the Barber...
Powdery snowflakes whispered down through the dusk. The wind drowsed. Out of a cavernous shed on a field in Belleville, Ill., a great grey shape slid out of lurking and moved off through the gathering night, purring a basso profundo that swelled to a dull roar as a white eye and a red in the creature's belly were seen to rise from the earth, twinkle slowly higher and disappear...
...Basso Feodor Chaliapin announced that next year he will have his own opera company. "Who will be in it?" asked the skeptical. "Wait and see," replied shrewd S. Hurok, Chaliapin Manager. "Where will it play?" they asked. "In larger U. S. cities, in Cuba and Mexico," answered S. Hurok. "What operas will it give?" "The Barber of Seville" boomed Chaliapin, the Barber...