Word: claqueurs
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Dates: during 1935-1935
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...that they would no longer be wanted after Herbert Witherspoon takes command at the Metropolitan (TIME, March 18). The Metropolitan management had nothing to say, for it has never officially acknowledged its professional clappers. Their Leader, one Harold Lodovichetti, was melancholy. Having inherited his job from his father. Claqueur Lodovichetti has trained his men not only to promote enthusiasm at the right time but also to curb it. An inexperienced operagoer gets a resounding hiss if he applauds at a wrong moment. If the Claque happens to be standing behind him, he may be fairly deafened when the cued moment...
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