Word: chaliapin
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...being 'hopelessly ignorant of state politics.'" Mrs. Margaret Sanger, birth control proponent: " I announced that hereafter Chicago-not New York- will be the birth control capital of the U. S. In Chicago we shall established our headquarters; from Chicago we shall disseminate our information." Feodor Chaliapin, famed Russian basso: "At a rehearsal in Chicago for Boris Godunov, opening opera of the season, I lost my temper. ' Imbeciles! Pigs! ' roared I to the musicians. Maestro Spadoni, who was in charge, stalked toward me, hit me squarely on the nose." Clara Clemens, daughter of the late Mark Twain...
Boris Godunov, with the Russian, Feodor Chaliapin, in the title role, will open the Chicago opera season on Thursday...
Baltimoreans expect to have the Chicago Civic Opera Company in their city for a three-day stay during the coming season. Negotiations for this are under way. The Baltimore people insist upon the following three attractions: Mephistopheles, with Chaliapin; La Juive, with Raisa; a Mary Garden opera. In other words, they want stars...
...numbers on the programme were the aria from "Don Juan" and Moussorgsky's "Mephisto's Song of the Flea". "The two Grenadiers" was well done, particularly the stirring ending where the "Marseillaise" is introduced. The Volga Boat-song, taken at a rather fast tempo, was given an authoritative interpretation. Chaliapin answered the thunderous applause at the end of each group with several encores. Perhaps the best of these was the "Inquesta tomba" of Beethoven. Both of the assisting artists, a planist and a 'cellist, served as a good contrast for the impeecable basso of the Metropolitan...