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...obituary column of a Naples newspaper a few paid lines last week published a fact that spread sadness throughout the operatic world. Antonio Scotti was dead at 70, a victim of arteriosclerosis. Headlines and footlights had been his for nearly half a century. Death came to him when he was alone in a Naples hospital, after having lived for months in poverty, dependent on occasional contributions sent by U. S. friends...
...When Scotti announced his retirement from the Metropolitan Opera Company three years ago, Manhattan newspapers devoted columns to his proud career, his intelligent use of a voice that was never booming, his subtle impersonations of such villains as Iago in Otello, Chim-Fen in L'Oracolo, Scarpia in Tosca (TIME, Jan. 30, 1933). When he sang his farewell performance a great audience cheered, wept, sang For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. When he died in Naples last week there were only four mourners to follow him to his grave...
...Tibbett was no great villain. He made himself a bigger nose but his make-up in general was unworthy of an actor with cinema training. His big voice boomed and he used brute force in his tussle with Lehmann. But his audience remembered too well the cunning of Scotti, the insinuating grace, the evil that seemed to lurk even in the folds of his cape...
...Company had a villain without peer. He seemed kindly enough backstage but when he strode before an audience as Baron Scarpia, Chief of the Roman Police in Puccini's Tosca, he became so sinister and malevolent that he set an all-time standard for that melodramatic role. Antonio Scotti was stabbed by 17 different Toscas from the time the opera had its U. S. premiere in 1901 until he sang his farewell (TIME. Jan. 30, 1933). Last week when the Metropolitan revived Tosca for the first time in three years, there was a new Scarpia, an 18th Tosca...
Statler Hotel, Salle Moderne--$.25-.35-.35.* Cover $1.00 weekdays, other times $1.50. No minimum. William Scotti's orchestra. Pleasant place with varied crowd. Cover makes it expensive if one drinks much. Dress optional...