Word: curci
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reinhold A. Faust, 74, of No. 2517 North Richmond Street, Chicago, last week told where he was on the night of Nov. 16, 1917. He was at the opera, hearing Galli-Curci sing in Dinorah* in Chicago's Auditorium Theatre. Midway through the first act, Galli-Curci left the dim-lit stage. Reinhold Faust left his seat in Row K, four off the aisle. A woman saw flame, and screamed. Chicago Fireman (now Fire Commissioner) Michael J. Corrigan grabbed a bomb, yanked out its phosphorescent fuse, rushed outside before it could spray buckshot among the 2,200 people present...
Died. Antonio Ajello, 78, master candlemaker; of a heart attack; in The Bronx, New York. To Mussolini, Pope Pius XI, Lindbergh, Galli-Curci, Marie of Rumania, many another big & little wig have gone sweet-scented Ajello tapers, fashioned from a formula that has been a family secret for 165 years. Most famed Ajello candle, world's largest, is 18 feet high and five feet around, weighs almost a ton, cost $3,700. Raised by public subscription in 1921 as a memorial to Enrico Caruso, it now stands in the Church of Our Lady of Pompeii (Italy), where it burns...
Other shifts: Jean de Reszke & Lauritz Melchior, from baritone to tenor. Dramatic Soprano Lilli Lehmann, like Galli-Curci, began as a coloratura...
...unsteady little lyric soprano quavering like a sad ghost pleading for reincarnation." Wrote Daily News Critic Eugene Stinson: "She had command neither of voice nor of breath: Panic seized her and for three hours the public watched one of the pluckiest fights the theatre has ever seen. Mme Galli-Curci's vocal estate improved but in the end it had not yet attained a suitable degree of competency." Few days later Critic Stinson heard some records she had made shortly after her failure, crowed: "Galli-Curci CAN sing. . . . There can be nothing wrong with the singing that made these...
Last week Galli-Curci sang exercises in bed, gaily emitted a high C. She gladly gave the Associated Press her own written account of the goitre operation, broadly suggesting that the potato-less Galli-Curci voice will be bigger & better than ever. Excerpts...