Word: bonelli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...return trip Boatswain Rolf Barrman, armed with a gun and a bottle, terrorized the crew for three drunken days. The Countess asked Captain Hoffmann as a favor to her to shoot one Ben ("Bugsy") Siegal, who she feared had evil intentions. When a seaman named Bonelli misbehaved, Hoffmann shackled him to the anchor chain. Last straw: a gale blew away most of the rigging. An Italian motorship towed them to port...
...personable, amiable husband of Contralto Gladys Swarthout (TIME, June 8, 1936). Tibbett is still president. The Guild, whose aim was frankly to protect the prestige rather than the purses of its members, signed up 400 of the elite of U. S. opera singers and concert artists, everyone from Richard Bonelli (made second vice president) to Paul Whiteman. But the Guild could not obtain a union charter, for it trespassed on the field of the Grand Opera Artists' Association of America, which had been chartered by the A. F. of L. a year before...
...weathered a G.O.A.A.A. strike-between the acts of A'ida when the company suspected it was not going to be paid promptly-and has since become one of its firmest supporters. Dramatically, he presented the controversy to the meeting as a personal matter, told his listeners that Baritone Bonelli had lately said: "No one who doesn't make $10,000 a year has a right to call himself a grand opera artist." To cries of ''Bravo!'' and "Viva Salmaggi!" the Hippodrome boss cried: "Tibbett can't sing! He's just lucky...
...what it had planned to, but with a minimum of friction, it remained for the Guild, as a legally constituted labor union with a new membership of small-fry artists, to divest itself of the appearance of being a club of big names. As if aware of this. Baritone Bonelli at once announced a drive to unionize even the mighty Metropolitan. But he added: "I hope I'll never see the day when Guild members will have to go on strike...
...Branzell, Doris Doe, Gladys Swarthout, Cyrena Van Gordon, Rose Bampton, Kathryn Meisle and Marion Telva, who has been badly missed since she left the Metropolitan in 1931. Outstanding tenors: Lauritz Melchior, Paul Althouse, Giovanni Martinelli. Charles Hackett. Nino Martini. The baritones: Lawrence Tibbett, John Charles Thomas, Friedrich Schorr, Richard Bonelli. The bassos: Ezio Pinza, Ludwig Hofmann, Emanuel List, Leon Rothier...