Word: scala
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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COMING. During the past week the following men and women arrived in the U. S. on the following ships: On the President Roosevelt (United States)-Peter A. Jay, U. S. Minister to Rumania. On the Conte Rosso (Lloyd Sabaudo) -Giulio Setti, Metropolitan Opera Co. chorus master; singers from La Scala to appear in Manhattan. On the Paris Drench)-The Duke de Alba from Spain descendant of Columbus; William Nelson Cromwell, famed Manhattan Lawyer. GOING. During the past week the following men and women left the U. S. on the following ships: On the Berengaria (Cunard)-Gloria Swanson, cinema actress; Georges...
...Melba, hastily derived from Melbourne. She made her debut in Brussels in 1887, as "Gilda" in Verdi's Rigoletto and in Covent Garden (London) in 1888, when she sang the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor which always remained her favorite role. In 1893, she appeared at La Scala, Milan, and made her first visit to the U. S. Then began her brilliant career ; her "liquid voice" became known in every opera house in the world, in Germany, Austria, Spain, England, Holland, France. She made many visits...
...which, after all, is better than a no-opera man, particularly if the one opera is a Cavalleria). It is now 22 years since Mascagni visited the U. S. He arrives here next month, together with the score of his new Piccolo Marat, which has been successful at La Scala in Milan and the San Carlo in Naples. There is a chance that a howling success here will make it his "second" opera...
Tullio Serafin, conductor, from La Scala, Milan...
Toti Dal Monte, soprano, from La Scala...