Word: chim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Scotti announced his retirement from the Metropolitan Opera Company three years ago, Manhattan newspapers devoted columns to his proud career, his intelligent use of a voice that was never booming, his subtle impersonations of such villains as Iago in Otello, Chim-Fen in L'Oracolo, Scarpia in Tosca (TIME, Jan. 30, 1933). When he sang his farewell performance a great audience cheered, wept, sang For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. When he died in Naples last week there were only four mourners to follow him to his grave...
...Chinatown. Scotti slunk down the steps from a rickety frame house and the performance could have stopped then & there. People started cheering. Orchestra musicians rose to their feet. Scotti, who through all his long career has remained an artist, took one brief, graceful bow, reverted quickly to Chim-Fen, the opium dealer. People forgot that the dark hollow voice was only a shell of what it used to be. Chim-Fen's sinister shadow filled the stage while he crept up on the child he wanted to kidnap, buried a hatchet in the neck of the man who found...