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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...
...bereft of job and money, disappeared forever. Never much of a factor in his wife's accounts of 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...
...hero of 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...
...Friday afternoon and the Metropolitan Opera House was still. In the musty old office which had been Giulio Gatti-Casazza's sat new Manager Herbert Witherspoon, 61, clearing his desk after weeks of planning and budgeting. On Saturday he was to sail for Europe, leaving an announcement of his plans for the world to know on Monday. The last of 279 auditions was over...
...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...