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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...
When paunchy, bearded Giulio Gatti-Casazza was General Manager of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, the Metropolitan's corps de ballet was run by his wife Rosina Galli. Balletmistress Galli, a girl with old-fashioned ideas, filled the proscenium with rose-garlanded damsels whose inexpertness became proverbial. Critics in those days were agreed that the Metropolitan had many shortcomings, but that the shortest of all was Balletmistress Galli's ballet...
...critics who had hidden a smile at Balletmistress Galli's efforts soon began to think that Balanchine was not much better. Although he staged successful ballets in many a Broadway show (On Your Toes, Babes in Arms), Choreographer Balanchine never quite got the spirit of upholstered elegance appropriate to Aïda, or the abandon appropriate to the Bacchanale scene in Tannhäuser. And as pirouetting Bacchanalians, the youthful American Ballet was discouragingly apt to resemble a flock of plucked sparrows. Kindest commentators agreed it was nice, but not quite right...
...name (Lord Robin Innes-Ker), Mme Alda reveals that "my marriage to Gatti was frankly, on my part at least, a marriage after the European pattern; a sensible arrangement between a man and a woman who liked and respected each other. . . ." Her opinion of her successor, Dancer Rosina Galli: "Like me, she had a rather pretty face but too fat a figure." Alda declares that, when she made ready to divorce Gatti-Casazza, she was told that her contract at the Metropolitan would be allowed quietly to expire. Astute, she obtained from the late Otto Kahn* a promise...