Word: scottie
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...then the opera itself: L'Irlandesa Rosa dell' Abie with "Gigli as Abie," ''Jeritza as Rose," "Chaliapin as the Jewish Father," "Scotti as the Irish Father," "Galli-Curci as Mrs. Cohen." The words to nearly every high note...
Jeritza was delighted with her "triumph". In that first London audience were Nellie Melba, Florence Easton, and the veteran Jeritza had sung with so often, Antonio Scotti. Without a doubt, they knew a triumph when they heard one. Without a doubt they stopped backstage before going home. And the conductor, there was another thing: Conductor Sergio Failonig, prize pupil of Toscanini, who attempts to emulate his master by doing without the scores. He got the sack for appearing "not to have gained the confidence of the artists." They sent for Conductor Leopold Mugnone, the Neapolitan, a great favorite in London...
Inside, in the great warm hall, a shivering conductor shuffled his feet, besought silence; the lights of the entr'acte dimmed; still the great sound continued. In his dressing-room, a 28-ysar old U.S. baritone powdered his nose. Cast with the revered Scotti in the season's revival of Verdi's Falstaff, he had just ended the second act with the aria E sogno, in which he sets forth his suspicions that his spouse, Mistress Ford, is plotting infidelity with "that reverend vice, that grey iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years," Falstaff (Scotti...
Married. Miss Anne Elizabeth Whelan, daughter of Charles A. Whelan, United Cigar Stores President, to Gilbert W. Kahn, son of Otto H. Kahn, head of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., famed bankers; in Manhattan. Present were Guilio Gatti-Casazza, Frances Alda, Lucrezia Bori, Antonio Scotti, John McCormack, Walter Damrosch, Josef Stransky, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew W. Mellon, Elisabeth Marbury, Elsie de Wolfe, Charles D. Gibson and 1,000 others. The wedding cake was seven feet high...
...Foundation already has a capital of $24,000 which will be invested and the income applied to The Fellowship. The balance for this year has been pledged by the former Mrs. Caruso. The committee in charge includes Walter Damrosch, Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Otto H. Kahn, John McCormack, Antonio Scotti, Josef Stransky, Mme. Marcella Sembricht...