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Last week, after 19 years of distinguished service, Contralto Margarete Matzenauer let it be known that she was through at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Wanting no floral wreaths, no testimonial speeches, she saved her farewell announcement until after her last performance, gave then as a cause the fact that in recent years she had been allotted only secondary roles.† Unlike Sopranos Frances Alda and Amelita Galli-Curci who have also retired this season from the Metropolitan (TIME, Nov. 25, Jan. 27), Contralto Matzenauer made no valedictory statement on the decadence of opera. Instead she referred...
...actual funeral last week the King's wreath, if it lay upon the coffin, was completely obscured by a floral tribute 18¾ feet in circumference, inscribed only with the two words in giant capitals BENITO MUSSOLINI. To make up for the King's oblivion there walked beside Il Duce in the funeral procession a figure never before seen at a Fascist function, sleek white-bearded Johann Schober, Chancellor of Austria...
Dartmouth's liberality is attested by the fact that of the 500 messages, an unusually large number, not a few were accompanied by floral tributes...
Great was the suspense in a Manhattan concert hall last week. After each burst of applause an expectant silence fell in the audience. Many thought, particularly after the sweeping finale of the Liszt Preludes, that Conductor Willem Mengelberg would speak. He had been presented with a floral wreath. They knew that it was his last performance of the season with the Philharmonic-Symphony.* Their programs told them so. Many suspected, moreover, that it was his final farewell to the Philharmonic and to Manhattan. The rumor had spread that he had criticized the condition in which Conductor Arturo Toscanini had left...
Great is the esteem expressed when musicians present one another with wreaths. By this token a big, bearish Russian might have felt doubly honored last week in Manhattan. He received not only a floral wreath, but a lyre made of red and white carnations and inscribed "in the name of American musicians to this Orpheus of Russia." The famed, hulking Orpheus was Alexandre Constantinovitch Glazounov, now making his first visit to the U. S. and appearing last week as conductor of his own works...