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Three days before Caruso died he sent for a boy named Giulio Nardella and asked him to sing. This Nardella had been a silk-weaver in a New Jersey factory. He sang as he worked. He sang as he walked home. People praised the beauty of his voice and Caruso sent him to study with de Lucia of Naples. That day he sang by the great tenor's bedside the last song Caruso heard. Last week he returned to the U. S. He will sing this winter in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago...
...Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Manager of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Manhattan, returned from Europe last week, announced that, among other novelties, he will put on four operas never before heard in the U. S.: Manuel de Falla's La Vida Breve, Spontini's Vestale (a work much admired by Wagner, which established Spontini's reputation in France in the early 19th century), Gioudano's La Cena delle Beffe, adapted from the play The Jest, and Stravinsky's Le Rossignol. He raised the price of seats: ground floor, $8.25 from $7.70, "dress" circle $4.95 from...
Part of maneuvers was the review of the entire fleet of 300 war vessels by the King from the bridge of the Savoia. They steamed past headed by the dreadnaughts Conte di Cavour, Dante Alighieri, Andrea Doria, Giulio Cesare. Afterward the King reviewed the air force...
...original joke, tagged, unfortunately, with a poor illustration; several pages of skits upon such subjects as after-dinner speaking, radio, the "life of a popular song," the New York Graphic. Columbus's arrival in Manhattan, a column called "Talk of the Town" signed Van Bibber III; an article on Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Director of the Metropolitan Opera Company, by one Golly-Wogg; "The Theatre," by Last Night; "Art," by Froid; "Moving Pictures," by Will Hays Jr.; Wall Street Notes, by Well Known Broker. These Manhattanites chuckled at several jokes which they had chuckled at before, glared at several which they...
COMING. During the past week the following men and women arrived in the U. S. on the following ships: On the President Roosevelt (United States)-Peter A. Jay, U. S. Minister to Rumania. On the Conte Rosso (Lloyd Sabaudo) -Giulio Setti, Metropolitan Opera Co. chorus master; singers from La Scala to appear in Manhattan. On the Paris Drench)-The Duke de Alba from Spain descendant of Columbus; William Nelson Cromwell, famed Manhattan Lawyer. GOING. During the past week the following men and women left the U. S. on the following ships: On the Berengaria (Cunard)-Gloria Swanson, cinema actress; Georges...