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Nearly four years have passed since then. Hallie Stiles' performances of Manon, Marguerite, Melisande, Butterfly, Louise, have been fads at the Opera Comique. The French like her because she has made their graces her own. Many a U. S. visitor has proudly claimed her to be the most satisfying artist on the French opera stage. Proudest of all, according to friends, has been her husband, Dickson Greene, son of Grant Dickson Greene, Syracuse foundryman. While she sang in Paris, he worked there as representative of Harper's Bazaar. With Dr. and Mrs. Stiles he was present in Chicago...
...air?to advertise American Radiator and Standard Sanitary Corp.? Madame Butterfly will be first, with Conductor Gennaro Papi, Soprano Frances Alda. Contralto Merle Alcock. Tenors Mario Chamlee and Alfred O'Shea. Baritone Pasquale Amato. Tosca will be presented in December, The Girl of the Golden West in January, Manon Lescaut in February, the so-called tryptich (Il Tabarro, Suor Angelica, Gianni Schicchi) in March, La Boheme in April. Deems Taylor, musical handyman, will explain the stories. George Maxwell, U. S. Ricordi representative, will bend a supervising...
Three singers made debuts during the Metropolitan's first week. Mezzo-soprano Eleanor La Mance of Jacksonville, Fla., a thin-legged, hollow-voiced girl, was "a musician" in the opening Manon Lescaut, sang her one aria nervously. Alfredo Gandolfi, who might have been any pot-bellied Italian tenor, was "a sergeant...
Gahagan. From Czechoslovakia came a despatch hailing Helen Gahagan, U. S. actress, as "outstanding American success of the Continental opera season." She had sung Tosca at Moravska-Ostrava well enough to be invited to perform in the Salzburg Festspiel, to sing Tosca, Thais and Manon at Bad Reichenhall and in Vienna. Miss Gahagan began taking her voice seriously only one year ago. On the U. S. stage ("Second Ethel Barrymore") she played in Manhattan (1922), Trelawney of the Wells, Young Woodley, The Enchanted April, The Sapphire Ring...
...Lawn-mowing in Winnetka is a regular Martinelli summer occupation. It is good for the girth. Among the regular Martinelli outpourings will be Manon Lescaut, Samsonn et Dalila, Aida. Curly-haired Tenor Martinelli returned, not long ago, from his first-in-16-years visit to Italy. Near him in Winnetka will be versatile Tenor Edward Johnson...