Word: caterina
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...drudge over the scores of Aïda and L'Africaine in France and Italy. Some day she meant to return, become the first Negro prima donna to sing in a U. S. opera house. Last week, two days before her 30th birthday, she did so as Caterina Jarboro with Alfredo Salmaggi's Chicago Opera Company in Manhattan's vast Hippodrome. Dusky Harlemites, high and low, turned out to cheer her triumph and theirs...
...Caterina Jarboro was born in Wilmington, N. C. of an Amerindian mother and a Negro father who worked as a barber. As a little girl she learned to moan the throaty melodies of her race, sang Gregorian chants in Latin in a Catholic choir. When her parents died she went to live with an aunt in Brooklyn, continued to sing in church at Sunday Mass, until Broadway's flair for Negro music resulted in Shuffle Along. Jarboro got a job in the chorus at $50 a week. Noticing that the other girl singers paid 50? for manicures, she learned...
...never seen much life. A pathologically shy bachelor, he finally decided to take a holiday in Italy and do a thing or two while there was yet time. He liked being in Capri out of season and got along beautifully till he fell in love with buxom young Caterina. Then his troubles started. When he finally persuaded her to run off with him by night, the romantic row to the mainland nearly killed him. Then he found himself in the midst of a crazy colony of foreigners whose erotic antics were hardly a help in furthering his own love affair...
...open-air theatre. I have organized schools and workshops to renew the Italian traditions of the minor arts. I beat on iron, I blow glass, I engrave hard stones, I print with my wood blocks, I color stuffs, I carve bone and boxwood, I interpret the recipes of Caterina Sforza and I distill perfumery. And I beg the head of the government of Italy to accept my offering whole and entire, and to declare it to be irrevocable and inalienable in any way or at any time; witness the living who are alert and the dead who watch...
...nine-day period began with his canonizing as Saints Lucia Filippini, foundress of the religious educational order Maestre Pie Filippini, and Caterina Thoma, a Spanish canoness. That morning he refused to take the elevator down from his private apartment, walked down the long flights. In his heavy vestments he mounted his sedia gestatoria and was carried to the canonization ceremonies at St. Peter's. They lasted five hours. He perspired profusely, several times passed his hand wearily over his face. Near him was the Rt. Rev. Thomas Joseph Walsh, Bishop of Newark, N. J., only American prelate so honored...