Word: battistini
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Brown--Harris, s.s., Lopquist, r.f,; Silvener, l.f.; Caulkins, 1b.; Hardt, c.f,; Battistini. 2b.; Paige, at Pierce Clark. c.2 Bewie...
...literature department, and was snubbed by Gerhart Hauptmann† who declined the honor (TIME, June 7), made haste last week to protest the new censorship bill in a manifesto signed by such "advanced" writers as Georg Kaiser, Bernhard Kellerman, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann. Inverse Income Tax. Signor Mattia Battistini, tolerably good Italian baritone, appealed to the tax collector of Duisburg (Rhineland) last week, to be classified as a "well-known singer," and deposed under oath: "My successful career as a singer has extended over 50 years...
German currency is worth almost nothing yet $12 in American money was paid for good seats at the National Opera in Berlin when Mattia Battistini, the famous Italian baritone, now over 60, made his only appearance of the season. He sang the role of Scarpia in Tosca...
...Battistini, said to be the only surviving exponent of the purest bel canto, has never let the American dollar lure him across the Atlantic. The reason is that he has a mortal fear of seasickness...
...reason Battistini never crosses the ocean...