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...Feodor Chaliapin, Russian basso, $200,000 on a personal contract with Adolph Zukor to make a singing picture for Paramount...
...Glinka. Balakirev and Cui were pioneers in the school of realism. Yet compared with the less Russian Tchaikovsky their fame has spread so slowly that even today outside Russia Moussorgsky is known for his Boris Godounov alone and that in the refined version of Rimsky-Korsakov made popular by Basso Feodor Chaliapin...
Brave indeed was Mary Garden last week as Fiora in the Chicago Civic Opera's L'Amore del Tre Re. Basso Virgilio Lazzari as the blind Archibaldo had strangled her, thrown her body easily* over his shoulder, started for the wings. But, once deposited there, she fainted. Her back had been badly sprained. Yet rather than disappoint friends she went to a tea given in her honor, chatted and smiled for two hours before she went home for doctor's treatment...
...appearances to the contrary, Jonny Spielt Auf* is no ordinary musical show, no Ziegfeld nor Dillingham production. Rather it is the notorious jazz opera of Ernst Krenek, 28-year-old Austrian, and it was presented last week by the august Metropolitan Opera Company with such important singers as Basso Michael Bohnen for Jonny, Tenor Walter Kirchoff for Max, Baritone Friedrich Schorr for Daniello, Sopranos Florence Easton for Anita, Editha Fleischer for Yvonne her maid, and Artur Bodanzky conducting...
Apartments, Manhattan, last March, six months before his lease was up. The landlord brought suit to collect rent for the balance of the lease. Basso Gustafson, last week in court, thundered that he had two good reasons for moving out: 1) Killer Harry K. Thaw was his neighbor, 2) patrol wagons at the door and policemen riding in the apartment's elevators were annoying, especially when they came to arrest disorderly women. Mrs. Sinclair Lewis (née Dorothy Thompson) last week accused Theodore (American Tragedy') Dreiser of plagiarism. She had written an able book entitled...