Word: chaliapin
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Sopranos Lucrezia Bori, Alma Gluck, Lily Pons, Rosa Ponselle, Luisa Tetrazzini; Tenors Richard Crooks, Tito Schipa; Baritone Antonio Scotti; Basso Feodor Chaliapin; Pianist Josef Hofmann...
John v. John. Concerning the battle between John Barrymore and John Barleycorn he was least reticent of all. He might quip that he was "just an ingenue about booze," but he also boasted that Chaliapin was the only drinking companion who ever laid...
...Great Stone Face--no one even tried to get rid of him; if you can think of an excuse for that, you belong in Hollywood yourself. The only time he's even passable is when, for some strange reason, he saunters around trying to look like an anemic Chaliapin; he's better then mainly because the more he looks like someone else, the less he looks like Nelson Eddy--no small consideration, believe...
...with whiskey and champagne, left a confetti-like whirl of bouncing checks wherever she went; and Loie Fuller, whose tour was supposed to be keyed to the ludicrous U. S. progress of her friend Queen Marie of Rumania. Other attractions launched in the U. S. by Hurok: Basso Feodor Chaliapin, Contralto Marian Anderson, Dancer Mary Wigman, the Vienna Choir Boys, the Piccoli Theatre, Pianist Rudolf Serkin, Hindu Dancer Uday Shan...
...velvet curtain of Philadelphia's elegant Academy of Music (built in 1857 and famed for its acoustics) lives a small brown bat. During Metropolitan Opera visits to the Academy, the bat nearly flew into the broad mouth of Tenor Beniamino Gigli; once it flew rings around Basso Feodor Chaliapin. Last week, by lying low, the bat muffed a punnish chance-a performance of Johann Strauss's bubbling, rollicking The Bat (Die Fledermaus), by the best troupe Philadelphia has had in years...