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Everybody knew that he was talking about Claudia Cassidy, the Chicago Tribune's triple-threat (drama-music-ballet) critic, who had just given Keane and the road show a mild clawing. Said Actor Keane: she ought to get married. When someone said that Critic Cassidy is married already (to ex-Stockbroker William Crawford), Keane snapped: "Well, then, why not have her divorced and get her married to Westbrook Pegler...
Publisher Robert R. McCormick, who likes a good fight as well as his readers, ran Actor Keane's diatribe in a big box below Critic Cassidy's famed "On the Aisle" column. It was more evidence of the fact that Claudia Cassidy is the paramount critic in Chicagoland. Her critical judgment is not infallible, but her reviews can usually make or break any show in Chicago...
There are few names that oldtime opera lovers care to mention in the same breath with Caruso and Scotti, but Claudia Muzio (1892-1936) is one of them. The daughter of an Italian operatic stage manager, she grew up backstage in London's Covent Garden, Manhattan's Metropolitan. Caruso, with whom she made a stunning U.S. debut as Tosca in 1916, once said that Claudia "knew all of our stage tricks before she wore long skirts." She had a voice to match her acting: she could, and did, sing coloratura, lyric and dramatic soprano parts with equal ease...
...Esoteric Records release, The Duse of Song (2 sides LP), out this month, younger opera lovers can hear the voice their elders have been talking about. Even though Esoteric has re-recorded its nine arias (including the Vissi d'Arte from Tosca) from 32-year-old cylinders, and Claudia Muzio's luscious voice is heard through a fog of needle scratch, her tones are full, even and velvety from top to bottom...
...Orchestra, Max Rudolf conducting; Columbia, 1 side LP). Some of Puccini's most heart-pulling music, beautifully sung. Although her voice is thinner, the Met's flaming new Tosca, in Vissi d'Arte, which completes the side, stands up mighty well with her Golden-Age counterpart, Claudia Muzio...