Word: beniamino
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...extreme" a sculptor as the U. S. contains. And on exhibition last week in the Palace was a pair of limbless little wooden figurines called "Mr. & Mrs. Technocrat" by Atanas Katchamakoff. On the other hand, star performer of the Progressives in their department store show was grizzled, close-cropped Beniamino Bufano, an artist of unquestioned ability who paints somewhat in the manner of Diego Rivera but whose sculpture looks like that of an Italianate Paul Manship...
Talk of a big new opera company buzzed louder and clearer in Manhattan last week than any of the many opera rumors of the past year. Soprano Maria Jeritza and Tenor Beniamino Gigli, both out of the Metropolitan this year, were two names connected with it. Richard Strauss, the story went, would be one of its conductors, Fritz Reiner another. Max Reinhardt, Ernst Lubitsch and Robert Edmond Jones would stage its productions in up-to-date fashion. Youthful members of Society would be called upon for support instead of the staid and settled folk who sit in the boxes...
...Europe Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza announced the changes. Soprano Maria Jeritza will no longer sing with the company. Mr. Gatti has had to cut his cloth to fit a season one-third shorter than usual. Jeritza and 26 others whose contracts expired have been dropped from the roster. Tenor Beniamino Gigli had a long-term contract but he chose to leave rather than accept less money (TIME...
...Tenor Beniamino Gigli had not decided last week whether to accept a $7,000-a-week offer for 20 weeks from Paramount-Publix, the cinema chain for which oldtime Coloratura Luisa Tetrazzina has been singing this season. But he was ready with the statement he promised his public in connection with his refusal to take a salary cut at the Metropolitan and the severance of his connection there (TIME, May 9). Excerpt: "Mr. Gatti-Casazza had a grudge against me. . . . None of my colleagues had a long contract to protect as I had. . . . They [the 32 artists who signed...
...Beniamino Gigli (pronounced "zhee-lee"), self-styled "world's greatest tenor," let it be known last week that he for one would not go on singing at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House at a reduced salary. Gigli made his reputation at the Metropolitan before he started coining money in concert. He, it was revealed, was the one artist who would not voluntarily take a 10%, salary cut last winter (TIME, Nov. 30). The Metropolitan said: "He not only refused to make a concession of a single cent, but in addition criticized and ridiculed the artists who had reduced...