Word: gatty
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ballet. For years the Metropolitan ballet has been slipshod. Ballet mistress was Rosina Galli, second wife of retired Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza. Not since 1927 has an independent ballet (Casella's La Giara) been given at the Metropolitan. Last week Manager Johnson made ready to cash in on the current popularity of ballet. He announced the engagement of the American Ballet, the lively organization founded by Edward M. M. Warburg and Lincoln Kirstein, with Russian George Balanchine as director (TIME, Dec. 17). From the present Metropolitan ballet, Balanchine will add to his group of 27 dancers, according to Manager...
...their life, this good Britisher lost what remained of his identity when the former Maria Metten took to pronouncing their name as if it were French. In 1908 Chorus Master Giulio Setti offered her a place at the newly reorganized Metropolitan. She sailed on the same ship with Giulio Gatti-Casazza, says she flirted with him all the way across under the impression he was a fellow artist, "so you can imagine how I felt when I knew he would be my impresario." Nothing daunted, Mme Savage readily embraced life in the chorus, which she says is happy because...
Having survived Gatti's long regime at the Metropolitan, Maman Savage began to wonder what would become of her under brisk new Director Edward Johnson. In line with a policy of bringing pretty faces and slim figures into the old opera house, Director Johnson lately started weeding oldsters out of the chorus, putting some of them on pensions. Last week, however, "the world's oldest chorus girl" had official assurances that she was too much of a fixture at the Metropolitan to be dropped now, would be kept on at least for another season regardless...
...Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson. Then suddenly, on the baggage truck, he was supposed to tell reporters how it felt to be General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera, the successor to Herbert Witherspoon who dropped dead two weeks after he had taken over the job from Giulio Gatti-Casazza (TIME...
...Gatti's gloomy old office there awaited serious business for romantic Edward Johnson. He found that he had fallen heir to nine new singers, signed up by Witherspoon just before his death.* Greatest shock came with the realization that some of the big stars had not been re-engaged, not Pons nor Ponselle nor Lehmann nor Schipa nor Tibbett. Conclusion was that the Metropolitan had resorted to poor economy but New Manager Johnson was instantly soothing. Negotiations were still in process. In the future young U. S. singers would be granted greater opportunities but not, if he could help...