Word: patty
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stir when he came before the court and said: "I, Paganini, am not dead." He played none too well, and when Soprano Frieda Hempel did her old Jenny Lind act, she sang off pitch. But nobody minded, especially when Soprano Bori came forward. Soprano Bori that evening was Adelina Patti, dressed in crinoline, a wreath around her hair. "I, Adelina Patti." she said, "have a message for you from one of my much younger colleagues. Lucrezia Bori. The Metropolitan has been saved. . . . Lucrezia Bori thanks you." Well through the night the merriment went on. Royalty became democratic, went visiting around...
...buildings shared humans' love for revenge, the Chicago Auditorium last week would have been supremely, smugly satisfied. The old Auditorium, which President Benjamin Harrison and Adelina Patti helped dedicate 43 years ago, used to be headquarters for Chicago's social and operatic splendor. Four months after Samuel Insull opened his $20,000,000 skyscraper opera house, the Auditorium went into receivership, grew dingier & dingier while its longtime patrons went to the new plush-lined theatre on Wacker Drive. Last week the Insull House was dark and the Auditorium, refurbished at a cost of $125,000, was open again...
...have heard Nellie Melba sing "Home Sweet Home," "Comin' Thro' the Rye," Tosti's "Goodbye." Opera crowds have seen her as Mimi in La Bohème, Violetta in La Traviata, Marguerite in Faust, Gilda in Rigoletto, Lucia, Juliette. The pure and springlike quality of her voice established her as Patti's greatest successor. It lasted her well through middle age because she used it so intelligently, won her triumphs for 40 years. Melba's life was as glamorous as the prima donna of fiction. She made her American debut at the Metropolitan in 1893 five days after famed Emma Calve...
...holy matter. It is also a hard-headed economic system and the communicants are bustling, practical, prosperous. Always have non-Mormons been welcomed to services and organ recitals in the great domed Tabernacle (seating capacity 10,000) just behind the Temple. This auditorium, where the late great Soprano Adelina Patti remarked: "My voice is twice as large here," had undergone last week a vast refurbishing for a public pageant calculated to impress its audiences with the fact that Mormonism is a successful religion if ever there was one. Accompanying the pageant would be music from one of Mormondom...