Word: casazza
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...Friday afternoon and the Metropolitan Opera House was still. In the musty old office which had been Giulio Gatti-Casazza's sat new Manager Herbert Witherspoon, 61, clearing his desk after weeks of planning and budgeting. On Saturday he was to sail for Europe, leaving an announcement of his plans for the world to know on Monday. The last of 279 auditions was over...
Witherspoon was to bring in new blood, grant the proper opportunities to young U. S. singers, whose hardships he knew from personal experience. His father, a Buffalo minister, sent him to Yale, where he majored in the glee club. He sang in concerts for 13 years until Gatti-Casazza, then serving his first season in the U. S., decided that he needed an extra bass. Witherspoon sang for eight years at the Met, retired to teach. During the hazardous season which preceded Samuel Insult's collapse, he directed the Chicago Civic Opera...
...weeks musical Manhattan has been saying good-by to Giulio Gatti-Casazza. Praised without end for his 27-year record as manager of the Metropolitan Opera, swamped with good wishes for his old age in Italy, massive old Gatti shied from the demonstrations. Last week he was glad to see his trunks packed at last and sent to the boat...
Best comedians were tiny Lily Pons and massive Lauritz Melchior who donned sequin loin cloths and indulged in acrobatics which would have been perilous without the wires which hoisted them into the air. Because the occasion was in part a farewell to Manager Giulio Gatti- Casazza every effort was made to get him to appear on the stage. But Gatti shuns the spotlight. Instead, cinema pictures of him were shown from The March of Time while the performers sang "Auld Lang Syne." The entire audience rose and clamored for the man who has guided the Metropolitan through 27 years. Gatti...
Mary Moore's manner is consistently naive. When she had her audition with Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza last spring, she was so excited that she sang with a cough drop in her mouth. Then she made a novena to Saint Gabriel and Saint Paul. ("But I haven't said much about that because I don't want people to think I go to church just because I want things.'') She practices in a studio because at home she is afraid of annoying the neighbors. When she makes an exception she closes all the windows, stuffs...