Word: mccormack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reports TIME, Feb. 17: "John McCormack and Amelita Galli-Curci, though still big drawing cards, have lost considerable (box office) ground...
Many big musical names have deteriorated in value in the past two years. John McCormack and Amelita Galli-Curci, though still big drawing cards, have lost considerable ground. Basso Feodor Chaliapin no longer "sells." His last minimum fee of $3,500 was too high to permit managers making money. Other names which count for less in dollars and cents are the Singers Frieda Hempel, Anna Case, Sophie Braslau, Louise Homer, Dusolina Giannini, Mabel Garrison, Reinald Werrenrath, Louis Graveure, Pianist Josef Lhevinne, Violinist Mischa Elman. Violinist Jascha Heifetz had also started to slip. The public found him cold, expressionless. But since...