Word: polacco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scrubwomen. But the performers in his $20,000,000 opera house regarded him as a financial wizard who could do no wrong. The News found that the once high-priced Rosa Raisa had lost all that she had, was in straitened circumstances along with such investors as Conductor Giorgio Polacco & wife (Soprano Edith Mason), Conductors Emil Cooper. Egon Pollak. Roberto Moranzoni, Baritone Cesare Formichi, Stage Manager Otto Erhardt...
...Maestro Giorgio Polacco the Chicago Civic Opera had from 1920 until last year an able musical director. But many a Chicagoan believed that the Company's activities-the long-delayed premiere of Hamilton Forrest's Camille, for example-were hampered by Maestro Polacco's domestic difficulties with his wife. Edith Mason, an excellent soprano. Married twice before, Soprano Mason became his wife in 1919, divorced him in 1928 charging cruelty. "This," he said, "is certainly a dreadful blow to me." Then she married Dr. Maurice A. Bernstein. Chicago surgeon. Last October it was made known she would...
...impresarioism" and temperament. In 1916 Harold Fowler McCormick, then president, appointed Herbert Morris Johnson as business manager. Yet despite his vigilance there followed such disastrous seasons as that of 1921-22 when, with Mary Garden as general director, the company performed brilliantly but turned in a whopping deficit. Maestro Polacco is an alien. Said Samuel Insull last week: "What I regard as a most important qualification of Mr. Witherspoon is that he is an American and has a fundamental understanding of the desires and hopes of the people of Chicago in regard to opera, and that all his life...
Camille was scheduled for performance last season but postponed because of insufficient time for preparation, some say because the domestic difficulties of Music Director Giorgio Polacco and Soprano Edith Mason last year slowed up the activities of the company. Neither returned this year...
...Vieuille from the Paris Opera Comique, Rudolph Bockelmann from Hamburg, Hans Hermann Nissen from Munich, Eduard Habich from Berlin, Salvatore Baccaloni from Milan, John Charles Thomas. A new stage director, Dr. Otto Erhardt, has come from the Dresden State opera. Soprano Edith Mason, divorced wife of musical Director Giorgio Polacco, will not return...