Word: gatti-casazza
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...twelve o'clock noon!" Five thousand Italians (standing at Fascist salute on Genoa piers as the Rex sailed with Citizen Walker aboard at the last minute): "Viva Italia!" U. S. Ambassador to Italy John Work Garrett (a passenger) : "The ship is magnificent-so luxurious, spacious and comfortable!" Ginlio Gatti-Casazza: "I am sure all Italian people are proud of the creation of their skilled and artistic countrymen. Every part of the Rex was made in Italy...
Like football fans waiting to hear who will play in the backfield, Manhattan operagoers have been waiting to hear what stars would sing in the Metropolitan's long-debated 1932-33 season. Last week as he sailed for Europe Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza announced the changes. Soprano Maria Jeritza will no longer sing with the company. Mr. Gatti has had to cut his cloth to fit a season one-third shorter than usual. Jeritza and 26 others whose contracts expired have been dropped from the roster. Tenor Beniamino Gigli had a long-term contract but he chose to leave...
Died. Andreas Dippel, 65, once famed tenor and co-director (with Giulio Gatti-Casazza) of the Metropolitan Opera Company, oldtime (1910-13) director of the Chicago Grand Opera Company; of heart disease, in Los Angeles. Lately, until a street car accident put him in the hospital, he had been working in the synchronization department of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Hollywood studio...
...week was no exception. The subscription sale opened for the shortened hwa season, went better than it has :or 25 years. Baritone Clarence White-lill's contract expired and as he announced lis departure, his intention to enter motion pictures, he took a parting thrust at Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza: "The Metropolitan is an Italian institution...
...cinema chain for which oldtime Coloratura Luisa Tetrazzina has been singing this season. But he was ready with the statement he promised his public in connection with his refusal to take a salary cut at the Metropolitan and the severance of his connection there (TIME, May 9). Excerpt: "Mr. Gatti-Casazza had a grudge against me. . . . None of my colleagues had a long contract to protect as I had. . . . They [the 32 artists who signed a letter protesting against Tenor Gigli's esprit de corps'] have acted in a tricky...