Word: lodovichetti
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...mild flurry of handclapping to $25 for a deafening furor. The late Enrico Caruso, a liberal patron, never sang without the help of a claque. In the days of Impresario Giulio Gatti- Casazza, the chief of the Met's claque, a hardy Italian named Harold Lodovichetti, described himself on his business cards as "Promoter of Enthusiasm." The claque's present leader is a more conservative man, who lives in The Bronx and is known under the varied names of Schultz and Bennett. The Metropolitan switchboard keeps his telephone number on file for such artists as desire his services...
...palmed gentlemen of the Claque were worried, for the whisper was that they would no longer be wanted after Herbert Witherspoon takes command at the Metropolitan (TIME, March 18). The Metropolitan management had nothing to say, for it has never officially acknowledged its professional clappers. Their Leader, one Harold Lodovichetti, was melancholy. Having inherited his job from his father. Claqueur Lodovichetti has trained his men not only to promote enthusiasm at the right time but also to curb it. An inexperienced operagoer gets a resounding hiss if he applauds at a wrong moment. If the Claque happens to be standing...
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