Word: pagliaccis
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...piano, while the other two sang and trucked during the rendition of the song, inserting at one point "I could sing Boula, Boula, even sing ...." Snell's contribution was featured by a rendition of Beethoven's "Minnet in G" on the harmonica, and Funk Sang the prologue to "Pagliacci...
Marcia Reale ItalianaGabetti *Ballet Suite from, "Aida" Verdi *Serenade Toscelli *Fantasia, "Pagliacci" Leoncavallo *Overture to "William Tell" Rossini *Aria, "Che gelida manina," from "La Boheme" Puceini Solist: Francesco Albanese, Tenor Rhapsody, "Italia" Casella *Ballet of the Hours from "La Gioconda" Ponchielli *Waltz, "H Bacio" Arditi Dance of the Camorrists from "The Jewels of the Madonna" Wolf-Ferrari Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square
...Author. Ben Hecht, "Pagliacci of the Fire Escape," is that rare type, a bohemian who made good on Broadway. Manhattan-born (1894), he staked his first claims to fame in Chicago, whither, after spurning college and joining a road-show as an acrobat, he went intending to be a violinist, turned newshawk instead. A vehement, ironic and imaginative talker, a writer of the generously promissory sort, he was taken seriously enough by the longhaired to be printed in Margaret Anderson's late Little Review. A collaborator of parts, he wrote several plays with Maxwell Bodenheim, then quarrelled with...
...rate opera, put on such 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...
...fedora (because it was "comfortable"), flew on to San Francisco to sing in Martha and La Boheme. The Metropolitan intends to boost her again this winter. There will be no more Pasha's Garden. Handsome Helen Jepson will have a chance presumably in Martha, La Boheme, Faust, Pagliacci, Tales of Hoffmann...