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...France in 1926, Jarboro hired a tutor to teach her the language. When her funds ran low, she sold the house in New Jersey, went to Italy. Four years passed before she made her début, as Aïda in the Puccini theatre in Milan. Later she sang in L'Africaine, for three years thereafter appeared regularly in leading opera houses in France, Italy, Switzerland. Last month she returned to the U. S. after seven years, showed Manhattan operagoers an Aïda really Ethiopian...
...plush orchestra chairs. An improvised circle of boxes had been built under the Dia- mond Horseshoe. The scenery for La Rondine had been set up on the stage but the smart New Yorkers who crowded the opera house had no intention of sitting back and listening staidly to a Puccini per- formance. The Metropolitan was housing a ball, modeled after the balls which have occasionally been given at London's historic Covent Garden and the famed Paris Opéra. The Paris Opera House during the Second Empire was the scene into which the Metropolitan had suddenly been...
...officer (Gary Grant) who light-heartedly marries a geisha girl, deserts her when she is with child, returns with his U. S. wife to pay a call when the geisha girl has been hungrily awaiting his return for three years-seems a little forlorn with no one to sing Puccini's music. For cinemaddicts who enjoy librettos without song it should provide acceptable entertainment. Typical shot: Gary Grant heartily promising to return to Japan when the robins nest again...
...radio's biggest, most persistent boosters has been Soprano Frances Alda. Three winters ago when most important singers were half-apologetic about their occasional broadcasts, Alda was proudly singing in a series of Puccini operas aired by American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. (TIME, Nov. 18. 1929). Last week Soprano Alda announced another enviable radio contract. With Meyer Davis' orchestra she will broadcast every Tuesday night this winter for the Waldorf-Astoria. And next week at a studio in the Waldorf-Astoria she will start taking pupils for opera, concert and for radio...
...Ricordi & Co. vigorously protects Respighi's music as it does that of the late Giacomo Puccini. Manhattan's Metropolitan has to pay $500 each time it puts on a Puccini work. Ricordi charged radio on an average of $5,000 apiece for the six Puccini operas sent over the air two seasons ago (TIME...