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After reading your account of Lucrezia Bori's farewell in the issue of April 6, I was interested to learn that she still has the habit of bestowing kisses on her friends and admirers...
...House. Nowhere else in the world was there such a line-up of singers as the one announced for that evening. It included Flagstad, Melchior, Rethberg, Ponselle, Tibbett, Martinelli, Pinza, Crooks, Rothier, Nino Martini. Like the audience, the singers were there for only one purpose: to pay homage to Lucrezia Bori who was singing her farewell on the Metropolitan stage...
Thus at the peak of her popularity did Lucrezia Bori, 48, quit the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House. She announced last December that she would retire at the end of the season, said then that she had planned to leave when she was 45 but had stayed on to help the company over its financial crisis. To many a Bori admirer it seemed incredible that she could be close to 50. Her voice is still fresh. She has been careful of her figure. On the stage she has always appeared as a youthful person, with a rare piquant charm...
...applause were spontaneous all week. Missing this year is the claque, that horny-palmed company of men who used to stand at the rail, pounding out ovations for the sake of free admissions or for a fee from individual singers. Missing from the stage next season will be Soprano Lucrezia Bori who, day after the opening, met reporters in Manager Johnson's office, informed them that she would retire in April. Miss Bori stated that she had always intended to retire when she was 45, that she is now 48, but that she stayed on to help the Opera...
...first-night opera was Verdi's La Tramata which has long supplied Lucrezia Bori with the role best suited to her fluttering, enameled charm. Soprano Bori can do no wrong so far as her audience is concerned. As chief collector in the tin-cup campaign she was roundly publicized as the Metropolitan's "Little Savior." Paired with her was big Richard Crooks who sang smoothly, acted with increasing ease...