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...suit filed in Rome by Pietro Vernati, 33, estranged husband of Coloratura Luisa Tetrazzini, 62, to restrain her expenditures on the ground that she is a "megalomaniac squanderer" (TIME, July 10): rejection...
...Lucia Mad Scene she whizzed there with a motorcycle escort, received a chrysanthemum "key to San Francisco's heart'' from its Florist-Mayor Angelo J. Rossi. The popular demonstrations reminded oldtimers of San Francisco's last great musical excitement, twelve years ago when chunky Luisa Tetrazzini sang for 100,000 at Lotta's Fountain (TIME...
...Tivoli in 1904, chunky little Luisa Tetrazzini made her U. S. debut and San Francisco thrilled with the pride of discovering her. But mention Tetrazzini to San Franciscans today and they will talk mostly of Christmas Eve, 1910, when she sang for the poor at Lotta's-Fountain, the ugly traffic impediment at Kearney & Market Streets, given by the late Lotta Crabtree who did her first trouping in California. More than 100,000 people heard Tetrazzini do her trills and cadenzas that night, without benefit of modern amplifiers...
Lily Pons insists that she will sing only ten years, then retire. With French frugality she should be able to. But even smart prima donnas find it hard to stop while they are successful. At 61 last year, Luisa Tetrazzini was singing in U. S. cinemansions...
Tenor Beniamino Gigli had not decided last week whether to accept a $7,000-a-week offer for 20 weeks from Paramount-Publix, the cinema chain for which oldtime Coloratura Luisa Tetrazzina has been singing this season. But he was ready with the statement he promised his public in connection with his refusal to take a salary cut at the Metropolitan and the severance of his connection there (TIME, May 9). Excerpt: "Mr. Gatti-Casazza had a grudge against me. . . . None of my colleagues had a long contract to protect as I had. . . . They [the 32 artists who signed...