Word: rimini
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 her to invest in Insull stocks...
...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...
...Rosa Raisa Rimini (Chicago Civic Opera Company...
...last week in Chicago a grand- daughter, Daughter Rosa's first child. If this birth was one of the year's most notable,* it was because Daughter Rosa is now a world-famed diva, Rosa Raisa of the Chicago Opera Company; and because, wife of Baritone Giacomo Rimini, she had become increasingly famed in 1928, when obstetrical forecasts in the Press were limited mainly to royalty and gossipy tabloids, by being reported "expectant" (TIME, April 30, 1928). The public had watched and waited while Soprano Raisa went with her husband to their villa at Verona, Italy. But there...
Baritones are seldom heroes. In La Tosca Mme Raisa has many times stabbed Husband Rimini. In Otello he is responsible for her death by strangulation. Seldom lovers on the stage, Soprano and Baritone have been (for opera singers) amazingly felicitous in the home. Domestic as are few couples so loaded with fame, they would have found no fault last week with the colyumist's casual, stereotyped term, "blessed event...