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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...
...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...
...York Times headlined a rumor that Soprano Maria Jeritza was also quitting the opera because of the salary cut. Manager Gatti-Casazza furiously denied this. Jeritza was one of the first to take the salary cut in the autumn. But her contract has expired, has not yet been renewed for the shortened 1932-33 season. The Times rumor appeared to be founded on the fact that Swedish Soprano Goeta Ljungberg, tall & blonde like Jeritza, is ready to sing Tosca next year, a role Jeritza usually sings...
...Metropolitan has also cut down on the length of the coming season-from 24 weeks to 16 weeks. A 25%, decrease in salaries is expected to result from Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza's appeal to the company. With these changes the Metropolitan hopes to go on for a time giving opera in the old house. But last week Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath strongly indicated that the company would eventually move to Rockefeller Center...
...such a fix most impresarios would give up in despair. But Giulio Gatti-Casazza, who until this year has run the Metropolitan without deficit, did not sit back dejectedly. He issued an appeal for the Company to save itself. He begged every member, singers and stage hands alike, to sacrifice himself regardless of contracts and rights. Said he: "When a house is on fire one does not send for lawyers or notaries. . . . I offer to serve [the Metropolitan] in the coming season with necessary reductions of salary which circumstances require, and even without salary if this be necessary...