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...escapades were their bread-and-butter talk. She always seemed to do the opportune thing at the opportune time, came out on top. She was the only prima donna ever to have her own permanent dressing room. Two of the older singers had been bickering for one for weeks. Gatti was obdurate?and then Farrar came in, casually. No one would mind, would they, if she took that dirty, airless room by the stairs and fixed it up. No one would, so she took it, fixed it over, lined it with brocade, put on the door a big plate?FARRAR...
...sole relic of the Conried star system, was getting bits of discipline from the management. She herself was tired out, vocally, spiritually. The death of her mother had been difficult for her. There had been the divorce from Cinema-Hero Lou Tellegen* whom she married in 1916. When Mr. Gatti offered her a new contract, it was too late. She had already arranged a concert tour with Manager Charles Ellis of Boston. Never, they say at the Metropolitan, has any celebration rivaled that of Farrar's farewell performance. Flowers, confetti, streamers, tears?to Manhattanites she was "Gerry," a passionate...
...curling halfway round the block; taxis snarling at one another, limousines haughtily shouldering their way through; crowded lobbies and scalpers asking $50 apiece for seats from last-minute bidders; Thomas J. Bull, silk-hatted, correct, taking tickets at the door he has tended for 37 years; General Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza, hands in his pockets, stealing in among the standees to take the temperature at trie beginning of his 20th season...
Critics praised the players, commended Mr. Gatti, for his first-night choice, reiterated old opinions that the opera itself is of mediocre muscial worth, dazzlingly theatrical...
Last week Director Giulio Gatti-Casazza of the Metropolitan Opera Company talked to the press. Behind his broad, shiny desk in Manhattan he told about four operas; three new singers...