Word: raisa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that Impresario Longone got for the money bears evidence to the passing of fantastic fees. Soprano Maria Jeritza, who opened many a Metropolitan season, was to sing the first night in Tosca. Mario Chamlee, John Charles Thomas and Grace Moore were listed for later on. Edith Mason and Rosa Raisa, two of Insull's singers, were back New Year's Eve Marion Talley will sing in Rigoletto, the opera in which she made her sensational Metropolitan debut seven years ago (TIME, March 1, 1926) For four years Miss Talley has been in re tirement, ostensibly wheat-farming...
...reverberations of the mightiest crash of the Depression still rumble ominously back & forth across the western world. Last week Insull echoes were again rolling heavily around Chicago: ¶ To be on hand for the rebirth of the Insullated Chicago Civic Opera Company this week (see p. 18), Rosa Raisa and her husband, Giacomo Rimini, required cash advances for traveling expenses. Just before the opening Soprano Raisa told" the story of how she and her husband lost their entire fortune through Samuel In-sull's investment advice. The utility tycoon had sent a representative in 1926 to urge...
...very, very rich woman." Each year thereafter she and her husband gave Insull at least $50,000 to invest for them. Each year he would tell them how much paper profit he had made them. One year he said their profit was $500,000 - 100% on their investment. Rosa Raisa wanted to cash in then & there but Insull would not hear of it. The stock was not delivered to them until after the crash and then with the stipulation that it must not be sold. After they refused to buy more Insull stock, she said last week, both...
...press his stocks on opera singers quite so urgently as he did on his shirt-sleeved workers and 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...
...News had Rosa Raisa "working in vaudeville" but she and her husband, Baritone Giacomo Rimini, who were once worth nearly $1,000,000 on paper, have been living at their villa near Verona, Italy, grateful for the farm products which grow on their acres, for an offer just made to them to sing at the Scala in Milan. The News neglected to report that Baritone Vanni-Marcoux came off handsomely by selling Insull stocks when they were still high, that careful old Basso Feodor Chaliapin ignored Insull's advice to invest $100,000 in Chicago utilities, bought Government bonds...