Word: grimaldi
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...tragic finish of "Laugh, Clown, Laugh" has, in the twinkling of an eye, been changed to a happy one and the change can scarcely be called an improvement. Otherwise the play is as it was before, of the theatre, theatrical, but vastly effective, this Belasco version of the Grimaldi legend with Lionel Barrymore as the sorrowful clown...
...another generation it was Grimaldi who "caused Judah to skip like a calf" from merriment, who made Europe rock with laughter. When, at the height of his career, he was seized with a terrible malady which developed into melancholia he sought advice from a London physician. "See Grimaldi and learn how to laugh", he was told. "Alas, I cannot, for I am Grimaldi...
...snowier than the fleeces of Sharon, whose voice could shake the walls of Gaza; Spartaco Morgia, dramatic tenor, with barrel chest and amber voice - a man like a hogshead of honey; Attilio Boschi, young baritone, who, it is declared, is destined to be "the second Scandiani"; the Rev. Antonio Grimaldi, basso at the Sistine Chapel for 16 years, a famed authority on ecclesiastical music; Eugenio Andriselli, adult male soprano and assistant organist at St. Peter's. In all, there are twelve singers. Their programs will include selections from -the religious music of the sedate Palestrina, operatic numbers and folk...