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...accommodate the pious duck hunters of Albuquerque, N. Mex., who foray before dawn, Father Thomas H. Bortell of San Felipe de Neri Church there, announced last week that special mass would be celebrated at 4:30 a. m. on All Saints' Day and Sundays during the duck season. Worshippers were invited to appear in gunning togs...
Because he is a Roman Catholic and because it was the feast of Corpus Christi, the young Duke rose early on his birthday beautiful morning, church went of St. Philip Neri (built the by his Solemn father in 1873), and there attended solomn High Mass, heard and the there monks from Storrington intone a sonorous Te Deum. Followed, in the afternoon, a solemn procession through the wide castle grounds, and benediction services under the castle trees, with monks and nuns from neighboring convents...
...done, and surprisingly well, too. Claudia Muzio, one of the world's great dramatic sopranos, almost made the difficult Ginevra role take on the semblance of life and opera. Not less effective was Luigi Montesanto who boasted loudly, loved violently, killed mercilessly, in the person of Neri Chiaramentesi...
...Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, Lawrence Tibbett, young U. S. baritone who won fame overnight last year in a performance of Falstaff, succeeded Titta Ruffo as Neri in La Cena delle Beffe, again took high honors. Sophisticates who had gone expecting to hear Giordano's glittering, theatrical music sung by beautiful voices, to see unauthentic, bombastic acting, stayed after the performance to call "Tibbett! Tibbett!" and went home comparing favorably his performance with that of Lionel Barrymore in Benelli's stage version of The Jest...
...accompanied by ancient Plain Song melodies. The Gospel story of "The Presentation of Christ in the Temple" has been dramatized and is presented immediately after the reading of the lesson. This form of Drama was most popular in the Mediaeval period and was later revived by St. Philip Neri during the 16th century in Rome. Its great function was to impress upon the unlettered people of the day the biblical and historical background of the feasts and festivals of the Church Year, and also to make the Ceremonials more attractive to those who were losing their interest in religious things...