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...21st year as general manager of the Metropolitan Opera Company behind him, his 41st trip across the Atlantic ahead of him, Giulio Gatti-Casazza announced last week his new singers...
...debut, that evening of Feb. 17, 1926, at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Ten thousand persons battled for admission. Standing room soared to $25. Mounted police handled the crowds outside. Within the old red and gold auditorium, humped in an inconspicuous seat, waited General Manager Gatti-Casazza. sphinxlike, beard sunk deep on his chest, pondering the ways of music in the U. S. Up in his box, sleek, important, pleased, sat the Chairman of the Board of Directors, Otto H. Kahn. And in that over-stuffed audience were heard the boastings of the Mayor and 200 citizens of Kansas...
...opera her career was soon over, limited to a few performances a season before audiences to whom her singing personality seemed as shallow and mechanical as last year's gossip. But General Manager Gatti-Casazza had another contract ready for her signature, and her country-wide appeal was proved by more than 40 concert contracts. From the spring of 1926 to February 1928, she netted $334,000 on tour. Today she can still get her fee of $3,500 per appearance in the less sophisticated cities. Perhaps she is piqued at the defection of the larger musical centres...
...tightness in her face, a tortured look. The impulse which has sent women to the nunnery ... is pushing Marion Talley now. It is a psychological case if the farm plan is sincere ; it is another ballyhoo, like the original Chamber of Commerce stunt, if it is not." Said Manager Gatti-Casazza: "I do not understand. I have always been like a father...
Divorced. Giulio Gatti-Casazza, hirsute & dynamic impresario of the Metropolitan Opera Company of Manhattan; by Frances Alda, famed Metropolitan soprano, on the ground of incompatibility, in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico. "We are the best of friends," stated Soprano Alda, "and I shall continue happily at the Metropolitan under his direction...