Word: pattiness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chicago's gilded old Auditorium, built for the voices of Caruso and Adelina Patti, echoed last week with the contralto exclamations of bowling pins. The best bowler in the U.S., 46-year-old Johnny Crimmins of Detroit, was trying for the national match-game championship. During the year, he had won 15 major tournaments, averaged 207 pins per game, earned $5,000 in prizes. He was out to beat 33-year-old Ned Day, who had held the title since...
...divas of the "Golden Age," only 71-year-old Olive Fremstad and 76-year-old Emma Eames were left. Emma Calvé had outlived Tetrazzini, Sembrich, Schumann-Heink by a few years, Melba, Nordica, Patti by many...
...operatic voices are known to have developed before the age of 10. Last week some of her listeners were reminded of the greatest who did: Adelina Patti...
...Most coloratura roles are in operas in which the heroine goes daft, is throttled, poisoned, knifed, or dies improbably of tuberculosis, along about 11 p.m. But in The Daughter of the Regiment, a coloratura has more chance for fun. The greatest singers of the last century-Jenny Lind, Adelina Patti, Marcella Sembrich, Luisa Tetrazzini-made the most of the chance, although the heft of the last two made the fun pretty heavy going. Lily Pons's principal worry is keeping her weight up to 105 lb., which she does by eating plenty of potatoes...
...sing, took her to Alberti di Gorostiaga, an elegant Spaniard who ignored French gender but knew everything about bel canto singing technique. Exclaimed di Gorostiaga: "Mlle. Pons, he is a charming, a gentle lady, he is the most hard-working pupil of my life, he has the range of Patti...