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Like football fans waiting to hear who will play in the backfield, Manhattan operagoers have been waiting to hear what stars would sing in the Metropolitan's long-debated 1932-33 season. Last week as he sailed for Europe Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza announced the changes. Soprano Maria Jeritza will no longer sing with the company. Mr. Gatti has had to cut his cloth to fit a season one-third shorter than usual. Jeritza and 26 others whose contracts expired have been dropped from the roster. Tenor Beniamino Gigli had a long-term contract but he chose to leave...
Died. Andreas Dippel, 65, once famed tenor and co-director (with Giulio Gatti-Casazza) of the Metropolitan Opera Company, oldtime (1910-13) director of the Chicago Grand Opera Company; of heart disease, in Los Angeles. Lately, until a street car accident put him in the hospital, he had been working in the synchronization department of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Hollywood studio...
...last week was no exception. The subscription sale opened for the shortened hwa season, went better than it has :or 25 years. Baritone Clarence White-lill's contract expired and as he announced lis departure, his intention to enter motion pictures, he took a parting thrust at Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza: "The Metropolitan is an Italian institution...
...Metropolitan has also cut down on the length of the coming season-from 24 weeks to 16 weeks. A 25%, decrease in salaries is expected to result from Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza's appeal to the company. With these changes the Metropolitan hopes to go on for a time giving opera in the old house. But last week Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath strongly indicated that the company would eventually move to Rockefeller Center...
...such a fix most impresarios would give up in despair. But Giulio Gatti-Casazza, who until this year has run the Metropolitan without deficit, did not sit back dejectedly. He issued an appeal for the Company to save itself. He begged every member, singers and stage hands alike, to sacrifice himself regardless of contracts and rights. Said he: "When a house is on fire one does not send for lawyers or notaries. . . . I offer to serve [the Metropolitan] in the coming season with necessary reductions of salary which circumstances require, and even without salary if this be necessary...