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Died. Gennaro Papi, 54, conductor of Italian repertoire for the Metropolitan Opera; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. He joined the Metropolitan in 1913 as assistant to Toscanini, coached stars of opera's "golden age"-Caruso, Scotti, Geraldine Farrar, Frances Alda. He was made conductor in 1916, served in the post for ten years, returned to it ten years later from conducting the Chicago and Ravinia Operas. He died a few hours before he was to have conducted Traviata, his first opera of this season...
...Riviera castle near Cannes, sultry, Cinevamp Pola Negri, 41, who quit German films in 1938 and denied that Adolf Hitler was her friend, complained that the straitened fare of Vichy's France had cost her 18 lb. Tenor Enrico Caruso's American-born widow, Mrs. Dorothy Benjamin Caruso Ingram Holder, who lives near by, reported that since the armistice she had lost 22 lb. - Ordered to report April 16 (a month earlier than expected) for his year's military service was bespectacled, Sabbath-observing, unmarried William McChesney Martin Jr., 34, $48,000-a-year president...
This song, New San Antonio Rose, may baffle or even irritate fastidious rhetoricians, and its tune is strictly golden bantam. Yet last week Decca Records reported that in January alone the song had sold 84,500 discs-sung by the Caruso of the juke boxes, bland Bing Crosby...
Died. Alessandro Bonci, 70, onetime tenor for the Metropolitan, Manhattan and Chicago Opera Companies, temperamental rival of the great Enrico Caruso; in Rome. Famed for his roles of Rodolfo in Puccini's La Boheme, Don Ottavio in Mozart's Don Giovanni, Count Almaviva in Rossini's Barber of Seville, diminutive Bonci was long on technique, short on volume, made up in lyrical effect what he lacked in lung power...
Died. Anna, 39, talented Metropolitan Opera House mare; of old age; in Rockleigh, N. J. Onetime mount of Rudolph Valentino in The Sheik, for 25 years she shared honors with Caruso and Martinelli in Aida...