Word: dinorah
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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...
Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue) conducts the NBC Symphony in Ludwig van Beethoven's Coriolanus overture, Franz Schubert's Second Symphony, César Franck's Les Eolides, Giacomo Meyerbeer's Dinorah overture...