Word: claudia
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...Europe was full of needy stars. In Milan, in Vienna and in Paris, they signed up; they all wanted to make their fame & fortune in the U.S. For singing with the official-sounding "United States Opera Company," Ottavio Scotto, a Chicago opera impresario who once managed Enrico Caruso and Claudia Muzio, offered salaries up to $1,000 a performance and first-class passage on the Queen Elizabeth...
...around the table, punctuating his protests with bars from Tosca and Carmen. Said he: "After Caruso's death they said I was the one. Tagliavini (see below') is a good tenor but light. I am disgusted. I want to sing." The Chicago Tribune's captious Critic Claudia Cassidy interviewed Basso Nicola Rossi Lemeni by telephone, had him sing a few bars of Lamentation of a Siberian Prisoner, wrote a piece comparing him with Pinza and Chaliapin...
Assigned the razor's-edge task of filming a story that was blatantly unsuitable for a big, star-spangled screen entertainment, Director Edmund Goulding (Grand Hotel, Claudia) did his thankless work with considerable taste and polish...
Versatile Actress McGuire (Claudia, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) plays the mute girl to a fare-you-well, finally managing to stammer some words into an antique wall telephone after the shock of seeing the last of a series of murders. However improbable such a recovery may be in a medical sense, it makes excellent cinema sense. So do a dozen other scenes in the picture...
Grace Moore, clowning her way through her annual song recital at Chicago's Orchestra Hall, giggled and gagged, told the audience her accompanist was "scared to death," got him so muddled that Tribune Critic Claudia Cassidy walked out. "I left in sheer commiseration," she wrote. "I don't know what his nerves can stand, but I know my own limitations...