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Soprano Amelita Galli-Curci; Tenor Enrico Caruso; Baritones Nelson Eddy, Lawrence Tibbett...
Died. Pasquale Amato, 64, onetime Metropolitan Opera baritone (since 1935 voice teacher at Louisiana State University); in Queens, L.I. Caruso's crony, he sang in some 5,000 performances, was best-liked for his Jack Ranee in The Girl of the Golden West, King Hidraot in Armide, Cyrano...
...lush days of Caruso, World War I and the booming 20s, paunchy Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza built up a $1,100,000 surplus, but depression tore it down again. By 1933 the Metropolitan had to pass the hat for $300,000. Since then, the Metropolitan has been regularly running...
...early Victrola era, a prized record was the $7 single-sided Sextet from Lucia, sung by Caruso, Tetrazzini, Jacoby, Amato, Journet, Bada. In the hysterical years of World War I, secret service men shadowed non-Germans Leopold Stokowski, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Leopold Godowsky. The conductor-worshiping '205 showed the most extreme faddism ("Toscanini conducting Italian nonsense could pack the hall"). In the late-lamented Flagstad epoch, Tristan & Isolde grossed $150,000 in nine performances, "thereby becoming the greatest 'hit' ever to strike Broadway...
...Enrico Caruso, 38-year-old son of the late, great tenor, got into a spat with a woman bus passenger in Chicago, wound up in court charged with disorderly conduct. The woman said straphanging Enrico refused to let her squeeze by him, stamped on her foot, slapped her. Enrico said she shoved him, called him a beetle. He apologized in court; the case was dismissed...