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...Burschsteins of Bielostok was born last week in Chicago a grand- daughter, Daughter Rosa's first child. If this birth was one of the year's most notable,* it was because Daughter Rosa is now a world-famed diva, Rosa Raisa of the Chicago Opera Company; and because, wife of Baritone Giacomo Rimini, she had become increasingly famed in 1928, when obstetrical forecasts in the Press were limited mainly to royalty and gossipy tabloids, by being reported "expectant" (TIME, April 30, 1928). The public had watched and waited while Soprano Raisa went with her husband to their villa...
Tonight or Never is about an opera diva (Helen Gahagan) who, although a lady of affairs, is unable to become a great singer until she falls in love-specifically, when Mr. Melvyn Douglas, in very gentlemanly fashion, bites her on the neck. It is the second production this season by David Belasco, who is ailing, and he has supplied characteristic touches: real rain, real flowers, a not particularly real play. Two years ago Miss Gahagan went abroad to study music. In Tonight or Never she sings snatches of Tosca very satisfactorily...
...Virginia, legally sane; a third, Lewis Stuyvesant became Lieutenant Governor ot New York. Giant, genial Brother Bob got elected sheriff by servicing farmers cows with a prize bull. He used to hunt for robbers at night disguised as a cowboy. He was married twice (once, briefly, to famed Diva Lina Cavalieri). He had innumerable friends, knocked three town houses together to have room for his mass studio parties which have become Manhattan legend...
...Ground opera at $1. Encouraged by success, Maestro Salmaggi has swelled this year's cast to 1,000, has added three camels, three elephants, eight horses to the Egyptian props. Impressive in the big concrete stadium will be vocal choruses, troupes of dancers, parades in full oriental pomp. Russian Diva Anna Lissetshaya will be Aida. National Broadcasting Co.'s Pasquale Rescigno will conduct. Later Samson et Dalila and Cavalleria Rusticana will be given. Then Im- presario Salmaggi will take his principals to Hartford, Providence, Chicago, Montreal ballparks, will present operas with the aid of local choruses, bands, dancers, animals...
Married. Giulio Gatti-Casazza, 61, general director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, divorced (1928) husband of Frances Alda, Metropolitan diva; secretly; to his friend of 26 years, Metropolitan première danseuse Rosina Galli, 33; at Jersey City, N. J. They first met in Milan when Miss Galli, 7, came to study in the Teatro Alla Scala of which M. Gatti-Casazza was then director...