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Into one of the building's obscure back entrances that evening, hulking, bearded Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza walked slowly, tiredly. He followed a narrow, twisting corridor to a door marked PRIVATE, went in, hung up his big, loose overcoat, his black, broad-brimmed felt hat. He was early, but at the opening performance there was never any telling when a call might come for Mr. Gatti to calm some backstage confusion. Gatti had been early for 24 other opening nights. His contract has three years to run. But if this 25th opening night should be his last it would...
From his chair in the wings this week Mr. Gatti watched Baritone Lawrence Tibbett impersonate Simone Boccanegra, a 14th Century doge whose life was thoroughly cluttered with political intrigues, kidnappings, poisonings. The audience, Mr. Gatti knew, would make little effort to follow the complicated plot. The few powerful, cumulative moments in the music would not make up for the lack of familiar, fetching tunes. But Simone Boccanegra suited Mr. Gatti for the season's opening opera. His hero Verdi wrote it. It is spectacular. The first act might be slow but at least the scene in the big council...
...your issue of Oct. 10 under the subject of "S. S. Rex'' you quote Giulio Gatti-Casazza ". . . every piece of equipment on the S. S. Rex was made in Italy." There are two soda fountains manufactured by the Russ Soda Fountain of Cleveland, Ohio-one each installed in the two first-class bars...
...Only a few months before she had been singing with a second-rate opera company in Montpellier on the Riviera, wondering whether to follow the advice of Maria Gay, an oldtime Carmen who had stopped at the opera house and urged her to go to Manhattan so that Giulio Gatti-Casazza could hear...
...Gatti-Casazza (as a British repair crew came aboard at Gibraltar): "I am not going ashore. Gibraltar has not changed in 50 years. I was once here as a naval cadet...