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...ragged performances that it was often hard to believe that there had been any rehearsals. He presented young singers who were blatantly unqualified for the roles they were given. Blonde Jean Tennyson, wife of President Camille Dreyfus of Celanese Corp. of America, starred in Pagliacci, La Boheme, Faust. Rosalinda Morini, a local coloratura who sings off pitch, was the heroine in Traviata. One Mildred Gerber, a protegee of Alderman Jacob M. Arvey, trilled hesitantly as Lucia di Lammermoor. Though Chicago opera audiences are notably easy to please, there was vigorous hissing when Tenor John Pane-Gasser appeared in Il Trovatore...
Medical affidavits filed with the court in Soprano Rosalinda Morini's $250,000 libel suit against Otto Hermann Kahn disclosed that he was abed at his Manhattan home, in serious condition with high blood pressure, angina pectoris, complicating pulmonitis...
Return of Morini...
Prodigious child musicians have a way of flourishing like the flowers of the field and fading just as fast. An exception last week proved to be Violinist Erika Morini who nine years ago at the age of 15, made a debut memorable for rare technique, vigorous emotion. For three years Morini toured the U. S. successfully, then retired to her home in Vienna. Last week after six years she returned?mop of black hair, vivid green dress?and despite her acrobatic tactics impressed a Manhattan audience with her increased poise, understanding...
Sued. Otto Hermann Kahn, Manhattan banker and grand opera tycoon; for $250,000 damages for alleged libel; by Rosalinda Morini, 26, coloratura soprano of Freehold, N. J. Last February Mr. Kahn was quoted in Miss Morini's advertisement in The Musical Courier as saying that she had "one of the most beautiful voices I have ever heard." Also quoted were the words: "Metropolitan Grand Opera Co." Later Mr. Kahn denied making or authorizing any such statement and said the use of the Metropolitan's name was "evidently intended to exploit for Miss Morini's benefit the name...