Word: gatty
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best comedians were tiny Lily Pons and massive Lauritz Melchior who donned sequin loin cloths and indulged in acrobatics which would have been perilous without the wires which hoisted them into the air. Because the occasion was in part a farewell to Manager Giulio Gatti- Casazza every effort was made to get him to appear on the stage. But Gatti shuns the spotlight. Instead, cinema pictures of him were shown from The March of Time while the performers sang "Auld Lang Syne." The entire audience rose and clamored for the man who has guided the Metropolitan through 27 years. Gatti...
Mary Moore's manner is consistently naive. When she had her audition with Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza last spring, she was so excited that she sang with a cough drop in her mouth. Then she made a novena to Saint Gabriel and Saint Paul. ("But I haven't said much about that because I don't want people to think I go to church just because I want things.'') She practices in a studio because at home she is afraid of annoying the neighbors. When she makes an exception she closes all the windows, stuffs...
...seemed to have gathered in the wings as a reminder that the Metropolitan owed them its world-wide prestige. In the corridors it was easy to imagine the small erect figure of Otto Hermann Kahn, carnation in buttonhole, a quick shrewd word for everyone. No ghost was big Giulio Gatti-Casazza, for 27 years the Metropolitan's general manager. But Gatti's regime ends next month. Last week his successor was named and a momentous bargain sealed. In a desperate attempt to save its life, the Metropolitan sold its independence. Price: $150,000. The buyer was the Juilliard...
...long been ambitious to dictate Metropolitan policies. In exchange for its donation, the Juilliards claimed also the right to pass on the Metropolitan's new managerial force. Herbert Witherspoon, oldtime basso and now a member of the Juilliard teaching staff, was named to succeed General Manager Gatti. Experienced Edward Ziegler will be retained as assistant general manager. Tenor Edward Johnson was appointed as another assistant, to concern himself chiefly with the Juilliard's pet supplementary season...
...milestone of U. S. musical history was the opening night of Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza's last season at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House (TIME, Dec. 31). Into the Metropolitan that night went The March of Time's photoreporters (in top hats & tails) with the first sound-camera equipment ever permitted inside the old opera house during a performance. From a grandtier box wired for sound two of the reporters filmed the action and music on the stage, the swank audience. Others followed Gatti-Casazza backstage, saw what he saw through his private peephole to the stage...