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Director of the Cometa Art Gallery in Rome, which gives exhibitions and encouragement to the pure artists of Italy, the Countess not long ago acquired second floor rooms on 52nd Street and the patronage of the Italian Ambassador, Mrs. James Roosevelt, Mrs. Vincent Astor, Lucrezia Bori and a host of other socialites for a second Cometa gallery in Manhattan. Thrilled and happy was the Countess last week to preside at an opening "Anthology of Contemporary Italian Painting" which gave Manhattanites such a view of Art under Fascism as they would not otherwise have found in the U. S. except...
...Shore. Depression interrupted the concerts in 1932 and Patron Eckstein died in 1935 before they were resumed. When his widow agreed to let Ravinia be used for summer music again, 25 businessmen raised $30,000 and reopened Ravinia last summer (TIME, July 13). Back to Chicago last week went Lucrezia Bori, Leon Rothier and Mario Chamlee (Archer Ragland Cholmondeley) who had helped make Ravinia opera nationally known. Day of the opening, Chamlee developed laryngitis, had to be replaced by Tenor Armand Tokatyan who in turn had to be replaced by Rolf Gerard at the Cincinnati Zoo where he was scheduled...
...eventual founding of the Roman Republic. Composer Ottorino Respighi had made his new opera dovetail scrupulously with Livy's 2,000-year-old account. As usual in his later work he had been sparing with orchestral effects, taken pains that voices should nearly everywhere prevail. Many pronounced Lucrezia the best opera Respighi ever wrote. The audience of 3,000 cheered and cheered. Conductor Marinuzzi took seven bows. But the composer did not take any, nor were there any calls for him, for Ottorino Respighi died last April...
Respighi needed a few more days to finish Lucrezia when he died of heart disease. Elsa Respighi promised to write the last 42 pages, and better than anyone alive was she qualified to do so. When she was a pretty, dark-eyed girl at the Santa Cecilia Academy in Rome, Elsa Olivieri Sangiacomo dreamed of being a composer and an opera star. She learned composition from Respighi, wrote songs, a symphonic poem, a dance suite, a fairy tale opera. In 1919 Respighi married...
Aside from Lucrezia Bori who resigned last spring (TIME, April 6), 16 singers were not scheduled to return this year. Johnson declared he would stick to last year's plan of fostering young talents by planting them in the spring season, but that they must not be billed for the regular season. Firmly he let it be known that this year would be one of weeding out incompetents...