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Naturally the serial had to have a catch-eye title-one that would help sell the paper-and Young Benito called it, with sonorous sacrilege: Claudia Particella, L'Amante del Cardinalel; Grande Romanzo dei Tempi del Cardinale Emanuel Madruzzo...
...some extent, their anticipations were rewarded. There was Geoffrey Wareham and Janet Rodney, his fiancee, an absurd and temperamental pair, a burden though a source of merriment to the girl's bewildered mother. The situation in this little group became tense with the arrival of Claudia Kitts, friend to Janet, and foolish Edgar Fuller, Geoffrey's visitor. Claudia looked at Geoffrey Wareham with timid but tenacious adoration. Squealing soulful come-ons, she caused a scene to occur wherein Geoffrey slapped Miss Rodney's cheeks. Further complications were engendered when the pasty Mr. Fuller made a pass...
...misplaced vigor as a hammer thrower might use in hurling a toy balloon; they reached for comedy like a first baseman trying to catch a butterfly. Josephine Hull played Mrs. Rodney with great cunning, while Dorothy Stickney, who was a mad murderess in Chicago, brought down cheers for making Claudia Kitts as raucous as a finger nail dragged across a blackboard...
Critics, praising the production, gave special mention to Soprano Claudia Muzio...
...Saturday matinees, a new series of twelve Sunday matinees and six or seven Friday night performances. No new operas have been announced, but there will be several revivals: La Navarraise (Rosa Raisa), Monna Vanna and Sapho (Mary Garden), Linda di Chamounix (Toti Dal Monte and Tito Schipa), Loreley (Claudia Muzio). New singers are Eleanor Elderkin, Olga Kargau, Leone Kruse, Lucille Meusel, Delia Samoiloff, sopranos; Elinor Mario, contralto; John Sample, tenor; Eugenic Sandrini, Heinrich Schlusnus, Robert Ringling (son of the late circus proprietor Charles Ringling), baritones; Chase Baromeo, bass. Maria Yurieva and Vechslav Swoboda will head the new ballet. Giorgio Polacco...