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Giulio Gatti-Casazza, the silent, Jovian man who for 25 years has sat in a musty back office guiding the affairs of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company, was given a party this week. His 200 singers sang for him. Oldtime Metropolitan stars returned to the stage to honor him.* Swayed by the wholehearted sentiment which opera-folk thrive on, the house fairly shook with shouts when the Metropolitan ballet shaped itself into a giant birthday cake, held up 25 candles. From his grandtier box Mr. Gatti gravely gave the Italian salute but no amount of persuasion would bring...
...only man ever born a king,' has thus etc." (TIME, Jan. 19). Thus you ignore lamed oldster, the militant Zoroastrian Shapur II, onetime (310-379 A. D.) hard-boiled king of Persia. Potent foe of Christianity, he also slew Apostate Julian, drove the Romans from Mesopotamia, Armenia, cowed Jovian, died a king. Alfonso will need to step- FREDERICK B. Noss...
Once again a slightly ever-enthusiastic pursuit of the Muse seems to have brought down Jovian thunder upon the unprotected head of Lampy...
...unfairness of the authorities as their continued failure to appreciate the temper of the press. Circumstances indicate that several faithful employees of the University were being harshly dealt with. Instead of exerting any effort to dispel these impressions, those in charge of press relations defended these actions with a Jovian silence. The public drew conclusions, not particularly clever, but convincingly damning and unpleasant. The result was that the god-like silence have the University very much the appearance of a thoroughly unholy Scrooge...
...first act with its Jovian disregard for the limitations of the stage was presented very effectively as far as the mechanics were concerned. The noises of a spring shower and the attending roar of the street were as convincing as could be expected when they could be heard above the shoutings of Miss Inescort vociferously acting the part of Eliza, the "good" flower girl. The other members of the cast presented themselves in a more or less clamorous fashion...