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...weeks musical Manhattan has been saying good-by to Giulio Gatti-Casazza. Praised without end for his 27-year record as manager of the Metropolitan Opera, swamped with good wishes for his old age in Italy, massive old Gatti shied from the demonstrations. Last week he was glad to see his trunks packed at last and sent to the boat...
...plaque. From Geraldine Farrar there was a silver loving cup, another from Rosa Ponselle. The administrative assistants chose a silver fitted traveling-case. The Metropolitan directors gave a silver tray with a set of resolutions. Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath was more practical. His gift: a bust of Mr. Gatti to be placed in the Metropolitan. Gatti asked only for the name plates from his box and office doors, for the secret desk panel in which he used to hide his seasons' plans...
...goodbys seemed to be over last week with a weepy luncheon at which Geraldine Farrar acted as toastmistress. Gatti was mellow. He bestowed an impulsive, bearded kiss on Conductor Arturo Toscanini, his oldtime colleague and again his friend. Then Rosa Ponselle got up one last party, at sailing time. When Gatti hulked up on deck he found that she had invited hundreds of friends to surprise him. Every opera singer still in town said another tearful goodby, drank champagne toasts. Gatti seemed tired and bewildered. But he replied with "Viva America, Viva Italia, Viva Roosevelt, Viva Mussolini...
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...