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...conducted there 48 years ago, helped master ceremonies. Out of her seclusion came Olive Fremstad whose Wagnerian interpretations have not been approached until this winter when Frida Leider and Maria Olszewska joined the Metropolitan.† Together the oldtimers sat at a table in a night-club scene, watched Lucrezia Bori and Rosa Ponselle do lively impersonations of cigaret girls, after which tiny Lily Pons did an Apache dance with enormous Lauritz Melchior as her shrinking partner and Dancer Rosina Galli, Mr. Gatti's wife, conducted the orchestra...
...first came on stage, a tall, broad-shouldered, unaffected person unlike the run of chunky, strutting tenors. He had stopped it again with his quiet, tender singing of the second-act drama. He had taken more than 35 curtain calls, clinging tight to the hand of Soprano Lucrezia Bori, who had done much to help him around the stage, on which he had never rehearsed. But if with his acting Tenor Crooks reminded people of a solemn young amateur done up for the first time in the frills and wigs of 18th Century Paris, he more than made up with...
...assume more burden. In fighting disbandment, Cornelius Bliss stressed the number of people who would be thrown out of work-about 770. He consented to serve on a committee to impress outsiders with the need for help. Characteristically he took no credit for his efforts; small, popular Soprano Lucrezia Bori was made chairman...
Birthdays. Frank Billings Kellogg, 76; Cornelius McGillicuddy ("Connie Mack"), 70; Rudyard Kipling, 67; Harvey Samuel Firestone. 64; Edwin Arlington Robinson, 63; Lucrezia Bori, 43; England's Prince George, 30; Princess Maria of Italy...
...Father Francis P. Duffy, "fighting chaplain of the 69th," convalescing from a recurrence of War-gassing; Vincenzo Bori from an automobile accident in Monte Carlo where he awaits his sister Lucrezia Bori, Metropolitan soprano; Edward Beale McLean, publisher of the Washington Post, of gastrointestinal afflictions, in Paris; Captain Robert Dollar, critically...