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...Harvard Night," ranging in price from $6.50 to $2.00, may be obtained on application to the Secretary at the Music Building Office between 9 and 12 o'clock daily, or at the box office of the Opera House.STAR WHO PLAYS "ARCHIBALDO" ON HARVARD NIGHT VIRGILIO LAZZARI The talented basso who will take one of the leading parts in the performance of "L'Amore Dei Tre Re" by the Chicago Civic Opera Company on February...
Satan loomed tall as a tower; his eye was a jewel, his voice was thunder. On the stage of the Chicago Auditorium he stood, for the first time this year. He was Feodor Chaliapin, giant Russian basso, appearing in Boito's Mefistofele. Louder than ever boomed the great voice; the mountainous man, lithe for all his bulk, stalked, the incarnation of sinister and engaging evilness upon the boards. In one of his greatest roles he outdid himself. He suited his bones to the music of his throat, executed a physical fugue; in the Brocken scene, he boiled, surged like...
Chaliapin's first Boris of the season met with a conflicting reception. Greeted enthusiastically by the audience and most critics, Ernest Newman, brilliant guest critic of The New York Evening Post (TiME, Oct. 13), was disappointed. He had not heard the Russian basso in this role since 1914. He found the great voice gone, the acting selfconscious...
...stage of the Manhattan was the scene also of the first appearance in the U. S., this season, of Feodor Chaliapin, incomparable Russian basso. He brought with him all his mannerisms, smiled irresistibly on his audience, wielded his lorgnette (with a gold handle) and his handkerchief and sang with dramatic power and genius which has never been equaled...
Engaged. Beatrice Fairfax (Miss Lilian Lauferty) to James Wolf, basso in the Metropolitan Opera Company. For ten years, Miss Fairfax has, in her syndicated writings, given advice and publicity to lovelorn lads and lassies of all ages...