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There were snags in that courtship. Ever since Caruso died and Farrar quit the Met, its Italian and French wings needed new blood. Witherspoon had planned to go abroad after fresh talent, dropped dead on the eve of his sailing. Johnson's sailing was delayed six weeks. By that time many a top-notch singer had been engaged, and last year's French and Italian performances had to string along with as little life as ever...
...University of Western Ontario, he skipped out before the spring examinations, got a job soloing in Manhattan's Brick Presbyterian Church, later earned $700 a week singing Lieut. Niki in Oscar Straus's A Waltz Dream. Money saved therefrom took him to Italy where he studied under Caruso's old teacher Vincenzo Lombardi. Cynical old Lombardi said he would make better progress with an Italian name. Translated into Eduardo di Giovanni, he cut a wide singing swath through Europe, kept the name until he returned to the U. S. in 1919 to sing with the Chicago Opera...
Musical history is slyly footnoted by the mishaps that befall famed artists. Metropolitan Opera veterans still chuckle over the horse that ate Hagen's beard years ago in Gotterdammerung, the slap Geraldine Farrar gave Caruso in Carmen, the hot potato he mischievously pressed into Nordica's hand. Playing Tosca in Vienna before the War, Jeritza fell on her face, coolly sang the tender aria Vissi d'arte prone. Margaret Anglin once stalked out onto the Carnegie Hall stage to declaim Electra's grief, was appalled to find a cat peering out of her flowing Greek gown...
...Woodworth will welcome into the Glee Club almost anyone from a Caruso to a bathroom tenor; and provided that one's voice is not too painfully crow-like or one's musical instincts too hopelessly at odds with the more authoritative notions of the composer, the prospects of becoming a permanent member are excellent. Once a member, real musical enjoyment is almost guaranteed. Faithful attendance at rehearsals is rewarded by inclusion in the concert list and the final big concert of the year with the Radcliffe Choral Society in Symphony Hall is well worth the preparation...
...Michigan. On Nov. 2, 1920, the Pittsburgh station broadcast returns of the Presidential election. Westinghouse then continued with semiweekly broadcasts, until Dec. i, 1920 when daily programs commenced. Neither of the rivals can claim priority except as a commercial station. Lee de Forest broadcast the voice of Enrico Caruso from the top of the Metropolitan Opera in 1908. Other pre-War radiocasters were Dr. Frank Conrad of Westinghouse and Robert Gowen of De Forest Radio Telephone & Telegraph...