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After reading your account of Lucrezia Bori's farewell in the issue of April 6, I was interested to learn that she still has the habit of bestowing kisses on her friends and admirers...
During the summers of 1923-24, while still a high school student, I worked for the North Shore Railroad at Ravinia Grand Opera. One evening near the middle of the second summer there was unusual excitement in the air, for Madam Bori was leaving for Europe after the evening's opera...
After having delivered some telegrams to Bori in her dressing room she offered to give him a dollar bill. He told her that he could not think of accepting it-that he was more than repaid at having the opportunity of being so near to her. She then smiled and gave him a "great beeg kees...
...Bori's career almost ended tragically when she was 27. A throat ailment cost her her voice and she returned to Spain, lived out of doors, burned countless candles to the Virgin Mary, waited for months without attempting to speak. When she returned to the Metropolitan in 1921 she established herself still more strongly with the Opera's subscribers. There was no one to excel her as Manon, Juliette, Mélisande, Violetta in La Traviata, Mimi in La Bohème, Fiora in L'Amore...
Though there were extra performances to be given in Manhattan and out-of-town engagements still to be filled, the Bori gala farewell was the milestone that marked the end of Edward Johnson's first season as Metropolitan manager. Impressive had been the signs of new interest in opera. The audiences had been bigger, more enthusiastic. Financially the Company had done better than it had in four years. What deficit there was the directors kept to themselves. Manager Johnson announced in advance that he felt it necessary to play safe at first, depend on a proven repertory in which...