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...bidding of him who held the strings, will open the season on the evening of Nov. 1. Rosa Ponselle will be the lovely Vestal to abandon the sacred fire for an earthly lover; Tenor Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, the Warrior who dares to violate the sanctity of the Temple; Basso Ezio Pinza the Pontiff Maximus brought by the infuriated mob to condemn the guilty priestess to a living death. He will strip her of her white robe, leave it on the altar and cover her with a black one, blacker than any sin. Margarete Matzenauer will be the Goddess Vesta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ave | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

Joseph MacPherson?25-year-old basso from Nashville, Tenn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Boston | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

Pavel Ludikar?Czech basso, also a member of the Hinshaw Company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Boston | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

Ezio Pinza?famed basso of the Scala Opera in Milan and the Colon in Buenos Aires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Boston | 6/7/1926 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Dog Show | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

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