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...Giulio Gatti-Casazza has done all this for the Metropolitan Opera Company for the past 16 years. Still far from broken, he continues to be liked by his company. So it was not surprising to learn last week that he had signed a contract to retain his directorship for five years more...
Samuel Insull, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Chicago Civic Opera Company, journeyed to Manhattan, payed a visit to Giulio Gatti-Casazza, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Immediately rumors went abroad that in the long confabulation of the two functionaries there was discussed, and even arranged, a merger of the Chicago and the Metropolitan Companies. "An opera trust...
...Gatti, however, Issued a formal statement denying the rumor. He stated that the subject matter of his talk with Mr. Insull was, interestingly enough, the mutual assurance that they would not lure stars from each other...
...added by way of parenthesis that the only man who understands how to handle artists sympathetically-and, it might be added, firmly-is Mr. Gatti of the Metropolitan. In confirmation one might point out that there are no public disturbances at the Metropolitan-not even by Galli-Curci, who sang her first performance for the season at the Metropolitan as Lucia...
...Manhattan, two new operas in one performance were given at the Metropolitan Opera House, La Habanera, by Raoul Laparra, and / Compagnacci, by Primo Riccitelli. These represent an important part of Mr. Gatti's novelties for the season...