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...Caught in a bamboo cage, she is taken to the U. S., twittering bird notes to a feathered crony named Ewyscray, venturing Gallic asides to Press-agent Jack Oakie. Before the ensuing complications are ironed out, the bird-girl trains her upper-register fluidity on the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor, on Je suis Titania from Mignon, on two less classical numbers entitled Let's Give Love Another Chance and (as Miss Pons says) 'Itting...
Chicago critics who had described Masini's U. S. debut in Lucia di Lammermoor last month, and subsequent appearances in La Gioconda and Tosca as "one long crescendo of excitement," now spoke of him unhesitatingly as "another Caruso." While Chicago music-lovers last week were congratulating each other on this sensation of the musical season, Tenor Masini was being watched by hawk-eyed impresarios from coast to coast...
...Santa Lucia Lady...
From Margaret Jeannette Shields, great aunt of Elizabeth Shields, Mrs. Jeffers and TIME have received the following letter identifying the Santa Lucia Lady, whose picture TIME printed, as Elizabeth Shields's great-grandmother...
Your picture of the "Santa Lucia Lady" was recognized at once by my brother and me as our mother. Elizabeth Duncan Shields...