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King Zog of Albania, in Vienna whither he had gone, he had announced, to get himself denicotinized. He was warily emerging from Vienna's opera house (Pagliacci). On his arm was a proud dancing girl, a blonde, called "Baroness" Francisco von Janko, who later explained: "The King has forbidden me to talk about our friendship. But I can say he has been extraordinarily kind to me. He is wonderful, and a great cavalier. . . ." As they reached the theatre's main exit two lurking Albanian youths popped nine pistol shots at the King. They killed King Zog's adjutant Mayor Lash...
...years ago this kind of story was handled in pictures with a mawkish solemnity that made it unbearable. It is built around a laugh-clown-laugh sequence in which a young Spanish singer, his heart broken when his sweetheart is taken away from him, outdoes himself as Canio in Pagliacci. Yet so skillful are detail, dialog, direction that the spectator is never concerned with the values of the plot as realism. Modern sound technique has transformed the old romantic design into a highly successful and credible operetta. Novarro sings Spanish folk songs, English foxtrots, Italian opera...
...beauty, is small-not an opera voice. Yet such a singer as Novarro would be far less absurd on a grand opera stage than the rotund divas and stout heroes of grand opera would be before the camera. The effectiveness of the pastel-tinted act from Pagliacci in The Call of the Flesh makes it seem likely that the cinema will have its opera and that it will bring into existence a new type of opera star-men and women who may lack the volume or tone necessary in true operatic amphitheatres, but who will have the good looks which...
...Italy, cared for the wounded in War hospitals. It was in 1919 that she returned to the Metropolitan, a greater artist than before. Since then she has had a succession of successes as Fiora in L'Amore, Violetta in Traviata, Mimi in Bohème, Nedda in Pagliacci, Juliette, Manon, Mélisande. She is devout and, like most opera singers, superstitious. She has a wire-haired terrier, "Rowdy," whom she adores. She makes up when she goes to bed with the same care that she does for the stage. She plays golf very seriously, loves to drive...
Cleveland?La Gioconda, May 5; Louise, May 6; Cavalleria and Pagliacci, May 7; La Boheme, May 8; Carmen, May 9, matinee; Sadko, May 9, evening; La Traviata, May 10, matinee; Il Trovatore, May 10, evening...