Word: borie
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was no operatic stuffiness in the good-natured, roly-poly Irishman; in 1925 he and Lucrezia Bori were among the first big name singers to go on the air. And in 1929 Fox paid him nearly a half-million dollars to sing eleven songs for a cinematic bit of Irish moonshine called Song O' My Heart. But in 1938 he retired, and only sang twice in public after that. Once was at his son's wedding in 1941. Last year, he started a tour for the British Red Cross, was told by his doctor to stop...
...Among them: Critic Walter Pach, Cellist Gerald Warburg, James Gerard (former U.S. Ambassador to Germany), Artist Constantin Ala-jalov, Correspondent William Shirer, Actress Constance Collier, Composer Howard Dietz, Actor Oscar (Jacobowsky) Karlweiss, Singer Lucrezia Bori...
Sopranos Lucrezia Bori, Alma Gluck, Lily Pons, Rosa Ponselle, Luisa Tetrazzini; Tenors Richard Crooks, Tito Schipa; Baritone Antonio Scotti; Basso Feodor Chaliapin; Pianist Josef Hofmann...
...going to get over it." ∙∙ In Hollywood Jimmie Durante broke a rib playing the part of a moll in an Apache dance. ∙∙ Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis lay in a Petoskey, Mich, hospital after a pneumonia attack. ∙∙ Oldtime Opera Star Lucrezia Bori, 53, turned up in Manhattan with her arm in a sling; she had broken her elbow in a fall off a horse. A piece of elbow bone, left over when the doctor fixed it, kicked around the house for some time, but she and her maid got tired of looking...
Last week Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera "revived" Pelleas for the first time since 1935 (when Edward Johnson, now the Met's manager, sang it with Lucrezia Bori, now retired). For Pelléas, the Metropolitan had engaged a young (36), slim-legged, personable French tenor, Georges Cathelat, a friend of old (77) Maeterlinck who joined the Opera Comique in 1931. Today France's best Pelleas, Cathelat was released from his wartime job in the censor's office at the behest of U. S. Ambassador Bullitt...