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...Amelita Galli-Curci continues to issue aphorisms in protesting her determination (TIME, Nov. 26) to abandon the Chicago Civic Opera. Her last : "An artist cannot give of her best if there are turmoil, bickering, quarreling. Even a street sweeper is shown consideration if he sweeps well. I have been shown none...
When Amelita Galli-Curci sings to a concert audience she gets $10,000-not always, but often...
...head of the Chicago Opera is Samuel Insull, electricity and public utility magnate. The managing director is Mr. Polacco, orchestra leader. Mr. Polacco desired Galli-Curci to sing Dinorah when she opens in Chicago on Dec. 3, but Galli-Curci desired to sing Lakme...
...Insull said: "I hope Mme. Galli-Curci will exercise a woman's prerogative and change her mind...
...managing committee has asked for a $60,000 endowment. There is probably some mistake in the announcement that the income from this sum would support it in perpetuity (six concerts per year) but there is clear indication of the flatness of London song when such a paltry sum (Galli-Curci would earn it in ten nights) stands between London and the best music...