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Such taps as these awoke echoes; the very names were pregnant as the curtain of an opera house with musical memories. One. thought of Puccini dying alone in a Brussels hotel while Bohéme was being played in Manhattan and a critic there was writing, "Wherever a fiddle scrapes, his songs are heard. . . ." Of Maestro Fortune Gallo shouting, "I tell you my name is Fortune. . . . I tell you opera will pay. . . ." Of Signer Serafin imposing his electricity on the wavering scores of Metropolitan experiments. ... Of Toscanini throwing down his cello in the Opera House in Rio de Janeiro...
What would the opera be? Dame Nellie held long council with her memories. La Bohème was good. It stood for a hundred triumphs, for gay, gay Monte Carlo and her début there a quarter of a century ago, for Russian Grand Dukes and Princesses, the warm scent of orange blossoms, tiny balls spinning in a great casino, the great Caruso who was her Rodolfo, Tosti making great goggle eyes from the front row. It, too, had been the first Covent Garden performance after the War, when a shabby tweed audience replaced the pompous black...
...sang arias from the third and fourth acts of La Bohème, the balcony scene from Romeo et Juliette to the Romeo of Charles Hackett, U. S. tenor, the final scene from Otello. She died once as Mimi, again as Desdemona. Her Britannic Majesty, high in her royal box, wiped away a tear...
...Bohéme has been cinematized. What disease does away with the heroine...
...stars), the Metropolitan (TIME, Nov. 2) went on with its season. Maria Jeritza as Tosca, lying in a lovely heap upon the floor of Scarpia's apartments, delivered a moving and irrelevant commentary upon love and art; Mme. A Ida (wife of Giulio Gatti-Casizza) appeared in La Bohème; Aida was given in Brooklyn...