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...Denver's big City Auditorium, a Roman-collared Catholic monsignor last week conducted an opera in which there were seduction, revelry, smuggling, stabbing. The opera was Carmen, 15th annual production put on by dark, bespectacled Monsignor Joseph J. Bosetti to raise money for Denver's Catholic Charities...
Italian-born Monsignor Bosetti went to Denver 30 years ago. He became music director of the diocese, director of the cathedral choir, which is permanently endowed by Socialite Mrs. Verner Z. Reed. Monsignor Bosetti's operas, which by now have run through the whole standard repertory, are" events for Denver, which otherwise hears only bedraggled touring troupes, and free, open-air summer productions sponsored by the Denver Post...
...Monsignor Bosetti's operas cost $1,000 a night, fill the acoustically poor auditorium for three nights. Merchants buy plenty of space in the program, and the production usually nets the Catholic Charities $5,000. When the Denver opera season approaches, Monsignor Bosetti rolls up his sleeves, picks a cast strictly on merit; it turns out to be 75% non-Catholic. Ray Baber, leading baritone, is the son of a Protestant minister. Since amateur voices may get out of kilter, two or three singers alternate in principal roles. Of the three chosen for last week's Carmen...
Present Chief of Chaplains is a Roman Catholic: Colonel William Richard ("Father Will") Arnold, 59, who joined the Army in 1913, has seen service from France to the Philippines. Last week Chaplain Arnold (to his Church he is a Monsignor) expounded his time-tried chaplain's philosophy...
...included in his script, he failed to report the first broadcast of Pope Pius XI. Promptly he was swamped with messages accusing him of being anti-Catholic. Wrote a Mrs. McCaffery: "I spit on you, you Orangeman." Next day Thomas related a gentle human-interest story about how Monsignor (now Archbishop) Spellman of New York made a big impression on his folks in Massachusetts when he was chosen to translate the Pope's speech...