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Bleeding from a head wound Pilot Leopold Galli, onetime first-string pilot in the French Air Corps, described how five Rebel pursuit ships dived at him as he approached Bilbao along the coastline at about 600 ft. Their bullets halted his port engine, wounded pilot and a woman passenger. Not pausing to let down his wheels, he dove for a pancake landing in a field...
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...
...booing and catcalling her Violetta in La Traviata. To newshawks she presently explained that she had caught a cold, announced that she could not buck Europe s prejudice against her high prices, canceled the rest of her tour. Since then, indefatigably carrying on her world concert tours, the great Galli-Curci had all but dropped out of the headlines until last fortnight when she slipped into Chicago's Henrotin Hospital and had her "potato" carved out of her throat (TIME...
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...