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...vicars apostolic, 16 abbots. From New York would go rich Contractor Patrick McGovern and onetime supreme Court Justice Daniel Florence Cohalan. President Mary C. Duffy of the Catholic Daughters of America sailed last week. From Australia went Premier Edmond John Hogan of Victoria. Among the visiting Cardinals: Lorenzo Lauri, Papal Legate, Paris' Verdier. Palermo's Lavitrano, Belgium's van Roey, Poland's Hloud, Westminster's Bourne. Shipping lines got up special tours, arranged for masses to be held on board. In Dublin Bay many a liner will serve as a hotel for Congress visitors, among...
...herd the faithful into line, with loudspeakers every 180 ft. to help them keep in tune while singing hymns. The whole thing is to be broadcast,* filmed. Celebrant of the Mass, and of a special mass for 70,000 children from all over Ireland, is to be Papal Legate Lauri. This well-born Roman prelate, an oldtime lecturer in Rome's College of the Propaganda, successor of Achille Cardinal Ratti (now Pope Pius XI) as Nuncio to Warsaw, is to arrive in Dublin this week. The city has conferred on him its Honorary Freedom, set up a triumphal arch...
...plump, liquid-eyed tenor is Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, who earns fat contracts by hurling lusty high C's at the boxes in William Tell, caroling lushly in operatic staples like La Traviata and Rigoletto. He has been paid well by the Metropolitan Opera. But he says that the U. S. is culturally immature, that he will stay in Europe next year when his contract expires. There he is more appreciated. In Paris, for instance, it is a gala occasion when he sings as guest star; the Opera pushes up its prices a bit (usually $3.20 for best orchestra seats...
...Italy, where he is still an Army Major, Lauri-Volpi has worked hard to become a great singer. He planned to sing there as usual this year. But he asked for more than $1,000 a night, special billing, special advertising, best dressing-rooms, and of course a No. 1 star rating. Crushingly from Rome last week came an official communiqué of the Consortium of Lyric Theatres which controls all the lyric theatres and opera houses in Italy, as well as all concert artists under contract. Because of "excessive special conditions," Lauri-Volpi was for an indefinite length...
AIDA, PUR TI RIVEGGO and LATRA FORESTI VERGINI (Victor, $2.50)-For those limited to a single record, this version of the Nile duet has the advantage of better singing by Famed Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg and Famed Tenor Giacomo Lauri-Volpi...