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...Manhattan that year, Bernhardt and Coquelin were playing in repertoire. Mrs. Leslie Carter was Zaza and Ada Rehan was the talk of the town as Sweet Nell of Old Drury. At the opera it was the "Golden Age." Sembrich was singing and Fames, Ternina, Melba and the de Reszkés. It was before the time of Caruso, Fremstad and Tetrazzini. It was way back in the year of the now grandmotherly Louise Homer and of the Viennese Fritzi Scheff...
Carmela Ponselle (of Meriden, Conn.) made her début in Aida, while her sister Rosa sat applauding in a box. For the first time since the De Reszké brothers, two members of one family are Metropolitan stars...
...have been hearing opera singers at the Metropolitan for a number of years. Also we have heard a great deal of petty gossip about them; back when Amato was greeted with favor, tongues were no kinder than they are today. Jean de Reszké had his enemies! So we are most interested to hear what you say about Caruso's "large paid claque." (TIME, Apr. 6.) Who, we ask, ever accused Caruso of a claque? We agree that, in his youth, Caruso loved Bronx Park, he was no moral stickler, he was fond of his spaghetti, his jokes...
Died. Jean de Reszké, 75, famed Polish tenor; in Nice, France, of heart disease (see Music...
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