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...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...
Director of the Cometa Art Gallery in Rome, which gives exhibitions and encouragement to the pure artists of Italy, the Countess not long ago acquired second floor rooms on 52nd Street and the patronage of the Italian Ambassador, Mrs. James Roosevelt, Mrs. Vincent Astor, Lucrezia Bori and a host of other socialites for a second Cometa gallery in Manhattan. Thrilled and happy was the Countess last week to preside at an opening "Anthology of Contemporary Italian Painting" which gave Manhattanites such a view of Art under Fascism as they would not otherwise have found in the U. S. except...
...Depression interrupted the concerts in 1932 and Patron Eckstein died in 1935 before they were resumed. When his widow agreed to let Ravinia be used for summer music again, 25 businessmen raised $30,000 and reopened Ravinia last summer (TIME, July 13). Back to Chicago last week went Lucrezia Bori, Leon Rothier and Mario Chamlee (Archer Ragland Cholmondeley) who had helped make Ravinia opera nationally known. Day of the opening, Chamlee developed laryngitis, had to be replaced by Tenor Armand Tokatyan who in turn had to be replaced by Rolf Gerard at the Cincinnati Zoo where he was scheduled...
Aside from Lucrezia Bori who resigned last spring (TIME, April 6), 16 singers were not scheduled to return this year. Johnson declared he would stick to last year's plan of fostering young talents by planting them in the spring season, but that they must not be billed for the regular season. Firmly he let it be known that this year would be one of weeding out incompetents...