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...making her farewell appearance of the season, sang the gracious Elizabeth who pleads for the erring Tannhauser. Backstage in her dressing-room her godson, one Jonathan Rinehart, 2, became involved with her make-up boxes, completely daubed himself with eyebrow-pencil, lipstick, rouge. After the performance, when Signor & Signora Gatti-Cazzaza and many another person came to congratulate her, Maria Jeritza made each and every one shake hands with 'little Jonathan Rinehart...
...producing company's stock but, contrary to the impression he sometimes gives, he has never "backed" it in the sense that Mr. & Mrs. Harold Fowler McCormick once backed Chicago's Opera or that Louis Eckstein now personally backs Ravinia. For more than 20 years Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza has run New York's opera and managed to enhance its prestige without incurring a deficit. He presents each season several new operas and the world's highest priced singers. He even built up a reserve fund which carried him through last year when seat sales started to fall...
Soon after the onset of Hansel und Gretel came telegrams of praise. Director Giulio Gatti-Casazza, pleased as Punch, had been popping to & from the backstage office of Press Agent William J. ("Billy") Guard, where a receiving set had been installed. Chairman Cravath was impressed. "A miracle! . . ." said Radio Conductor Walter Johannes Damrosch. The engineers who had succeeded in making the whole country (and several further parts of the world) an opera house, said that the old part-wooden Met was much easier to work with than Chicago's handsome new opera house, whose concrete tends to give off bass...
...board chairman, felt called upon last week to make his first significant speech from the throne. Rumors have had the Metropolitan so hard hit financially that it could not even finish the present season, its directors so dissatisfied with the conservative, practical policies of Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza that they were just waiting for the expiration of his contract (April 1935) to appoint some such character as Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel to take his job. That meant surely a company reorganized and moved to Radio City...
...most people were surprised last week to learn that it, too, had seriously felt Depression, that unless expenses were cut the quality of performances would have to suffer. Metropolitan artists behaved then in a manner worthy of the Company's proud traditions. Regardless of his contract, Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza offered to take 10% less salary. Singers followed suit. Metropolitan performances cost from $14,000 to $15,000 apiece. Another help in time of trouble may be the revenue from Saturday matinee broadcasts. Long adamant on the subject of radio, the Metropolitan has at last succumbed. Chicago Civic Opera...