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...voice is free again, unbridled after years of struggle with the potato. The result of my operation is just short of marvelous. Even now. when I am not fully recovered. I need hardly open my mouth to obtain the pure tones difficult when the potato was in my throat. . . . My voice is like a young colt; I will have to restrain...
...this time, a small goitre, which she called her "potato," had made its appearance on her throat, severely cutting down her respiration. However, she started on a European tour, reduced her price to $2,200. She had her usual successes in London and Prague but in Budapest one night an audience astonished and dismayed her by booing and catcalling her Violetta in La Traviata. To newshawks she presently explained that she had caught a cold, announced that she could not buck Europe s prejudice against her high prices, canceled the rest of her tour. Since then, indefatigably carrying...
Last week Galli-Curci sang exercises in bed, gaily emitted a high C. She gladly gave the Associated Press her own written account of the goitre operation, broadly suggesting that the potato-less Galli-Curci voice will be bigger & better than ever. Excerpts...
...years what she affectionately called a "potato" grew in the neck of Mme Amelita Galli-Curci, forcing her to adjust her coloratura soprano to 50% less wind volume. Last week in Chicago, while the onetime prima donna trilled tones and scales to show the effects on her voice, surgeons working with a local anesthetic successfully cut away a 6½-oz. goitre...
...Anna Schlorer helped her mother mix, bottle and label mayonnaise in the family kitchen, peddled it from door to door until midnight or later. After six years her mother formed a company and soon the mayonnaise, pickles, relishes, potato salad and other delicacies of Mrs. Schlorer's, Inc. were famed throughout Philadelphia & vicinity...