Word: masons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...decades ago he came to the U. S. from Italy, lavished his talent on scattered engagements. In 1915 he substituted for Toscanini as chief conductor of the Metropolitan Opera Company, Manhattan. Later he was called to assist the great Cleofonte Campanini as director of the Chicago Opera, married Edith Mason, singer. Now he makes music out of even La Cena Delle Beffe...
From Gore: J. E. Auchmoody, J. W. Blazek, A. L. Devens Jr., C. M. Lanterhahn, T. F. Mason, A. R. Maynard, K. S. Nash, C. S. Prorasch, E. W. Remick, W. W. Ryan, H. C. Whitman Jr., Craig Wylie...
...following men from Gore Hall have been nominated: J. E. Auchmoody, A. L. Devens Jr., C. M. Lauterhahn, T. F. Mason, A. R. Maynard, K. S. Nash, C. S. Petrasch, W. W. Ryan, H. C. Whitman Jr., Craig Wylie...
...greatest. Marie, Queen of Rumania, came the opening night to see Aïda. If Samuel Insull, sitting beside Her Majesty in the first box, had been a man of many words, he might have told her of the rising fame of Chicago opera, of such artists as Edith Mason, Mary Garden, Rosa Raisa, Cyrena Van Gordon, Charles Marshall, Tito Schipa. It is true that Chicago has no Rosa Ponselle, no Maria Jeritza, no Gigli, no Martinelli, and that it dispensed with the high-priced Amelita Galli-Curci; but often the Chicago operas more than equal the Metropolitan in vitality...
...Cyrena Van Gordon Pharoah's daughter and Arnoldo Lindi the suave-throated warrior loved by them both. Jewels of the Madonna came next with Rosa Raisa, as the Neapolitan slut, lavishing sumptuous tones on tunes as tawdry as the stage jewels that tempted her. Came Boheme with Edith Mason and then-Resurrection with Mary Garden. It mattered little to Chicagoans that her voice was some times cloudy, sometimes thin, that tones were tossed this way and that, sometimes too negligible to be tones at all. That evening she was no prima donna. She was Katiusha, loveliest of peasant girls...