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...greatest ovation in my 50 years of concert going," said Mrs. William Randolph Hearst Sr. Said Jeritza: "A rabbit could have scared me away. I went to the post like a race horse which wears blinders. My heart was going boom, boom, boom...
...dozen of the Metropolitan's once-great singers went to Manhattan's Town Hall last week. Frances Alda, Giovanni Martinelli, Maria Jeritza, Karin Branzell and Elisabeth Rethberg sat in the audience. On stage was the oldest of them all, roly-poly, 69-year-old Giuseppe de Luca, onetime star of the Met's "Golden Age." It was his first Manhattan recital in 29 years. Said De Luca afterward: "Even before I began to sing they make a big ovation. They don't even know can I still sing. They are saying...
Most of the oldtimers in the audience had sung with De Luca during the 20 years when he was one of the Met's great baritones. With Jeritza, De Luca had sung Carmen, with Alda, La Bohéme, and with Rethberg and Martinelli, Il Trovatore. When the Met's new manager, Edward Johnson, was approved in 1935, he did not renew De Luca's high-salaried contract. Throughout the war, De Luca was in Italy. His 30-room villa was untouched by bombs which flattened the house of his neighbor, Virginio Gayda, Mussolini's press...
Died. Winfield Richard Sheehan, 61, pioneer movie maker, husband of ex-Diva Maria Jeritza; from a relapse after an abdominal operation; in Hollywood. Co-organizer of the Fox studio in 1914 and longtime picture-producer (What Price Glory? Cavalcade}, he uncovered many a star (Janet Gaynor, Shirley Temple, Spencer Tracy). He returned to cinemaking last year to produce Captain Eddie...
...some who will still say it isn't [a great voice]. But I do have a voice that has made people listen, that seemed to make people happy and exhilarated." With all her faults, she remains one of the few divas since the retirement of Maria Jeritza and Mary Garden who can cause dramatic excitement merely by walking onto the stage...