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Married. Giulio Gatti-Casazza, 61, general director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, divorced (1928) husband of Frances Alda, Metropolitan diva; secretly; to his friend of 26 years, Metropolitan première danseuse Rosina Galli, 33; at Jersey City, N. J. They first met in Milan when Miss Galli, 7, came to study in the Teatro Alla Scala of which M. Gatti-Casazza was then director...
Last week Hollywood donned emeralds and ermine and flocked to the world première of All Quiet. Afterward Hollywood went to Junior Laemmle's dancing party at The Embassy, formidably exclusive club of high cinema society. Lavish was its praise of Junior's picture. But privately it whispered professional misgivings. It whispered that the picture was too long; that it was too gloomy for the general taste; that the novelty of war pictures was gone. The true trouble was that All Quiet had been injudiciously heralded as the great epic of the War. Courageous and vivid...
...World première of Pizzetti's Rondo Veneziano, to be played by New York Philharmonic Symphony orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; in Manhattan...
...American premiére of Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko, at Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan...
Another one-act opera by another British conductor had its première last week in Munich. Samuel Pepys was its name, Albert Coates its composer. Librettists Richard Price and Lieut.-Col. W. P. Drury concocted a characteristic Pepys plot out of their imaginations, had the scampish Samuel entertain an actress, Mistress Knipp, with wines and spinet-playing; had Mistress Pepys return inopportunely but not until Mistress Knipp had time to disguise herself as the Merry Monarch Charles II honoring his Secretary of the Admiralty with a visit. Müncheners greatly liked this synthetic Pepys given them...