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Sunday afternoon in Symphony Hall, Feodor Chaliapin, basso, greatest of living opera singers and actor as well as singer. As usual, he will announce his program from the stage. Rudolf Polk, violinist, and Feedor Koenemann, planist, will assist...
Wagnerites will almost certainly be given Rheingold and Götterdámmerung. Rumored "new singers" are: Ralph Errole, tenor, Joan Ruth, soprano, and Marion Talley, soprano (TIME, April 14)-Americans all, as well as Signor Enzo Bozano, basso from Trentino...
...name of Lehmann is inseparable from the history of the Metropolitan Opera House in the 80's when German opera predominated under Frank Damrosch and Anton Seidl; and when the singers of fame in that Age of Innocence were Frau Brandt, contralto, Stritt and Alvary, tenors, and Fischer, basso...
...hopelessly ignorant of state politics.'" Mrs. Margaret Sanger, birth control proponent: " I announced that hereafter Chicago-not New York- will be the birth control capital of the U. S. In Chicago we shall established our headquarters; from Chicago we shall disseminate our information." Feodor Chaliapin, famed Russian basso: "At a rehearsal in Chicago for Boris Godunov, opening opera of the season, I lost my temper. ' Imbeciles! Pigs! ' roared I to the musicians. Maestro Spadoni, who was in charge, stalked toward me, hit me squarely on the nose." Clara Clemens, daughter of the late Mark Twain: "At Town...
Another anti-Fascismo incident occurred in Northern Italy when Colonel Rossetti interrupted a Fascist meeting with cries of "Viva I'Italia libera" and "A basso il Fascismo!" He was then manhandled by the crowd, who subsequently discovered that their victim was the man who sank the Viribus Unitis (flagship of the Austrian navy) single-handed during the war. Rossetti speaking of this experience said: "I was treated by the Austrians with all the honors of war when I was their prisoner, but when I breathe the sacred word Liberta, all I get from my own countrymen is kicks...