Word: lindy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...competently negotiated the first week of its repertoire. Aida was the first to be taken out of storage, dusted and dressed in all its Egyptian splendor to do credit to the opening night. Claudia Muzio was the Ethiopian slave girl, Cyrena Van Gordon Pharoah's daughter and Arnoldo Lindi the suave-throated warrior loved by them both. Jewels of the Madonna came next with Rosa Raisa, as the Neapolitan slut, lavishing sumptuous tones on tunes as tawdry as the stage jewels that tempted her. Came Boheme with Edith Mason and then-Resurrection with Mary Garden. It mattered little...
...Arnoldo Lindi (see above) was once a breaker boy in a Swedish iron mine; he ran away, shipped before the mast, landed in Boston. There he moved furniture, went in for pugilism, sang in his spare lime with a Swedish choral society. True to tradition a rich man heard him, sent him abroad for a musical education, where he has since had successful engagements. Last week he had his Chicago debut...