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Revivals include Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, silent since 1914, although its Barcarolle is familiar enough; Charpentier's Louise; Verdi's Falstaff with Antonio Scotti; and perhaps also Mozart's Don Giovanni. Galli-Curci will probably make her much-heralded Manhattan debut in Dinorah, in which the Shadow Song can be depended upon to raise the audience from their seats...
Then Otto Hermann Kahn, chairman of the Board of Directors, made a speech. Said he: "Instead of addressing you [Scotti] in dry, measured terms, the right way to handle this ceremony would be a pantomime with music, somewhat on the lines of Coq dOr. I ought to stand here going through the motions of making a speech, while lovely voices with lovely music sing an ode to Scotti and lovely women place a laurel wreath upon your 'brow. I throw this out as a suggestion for my successor at your 50-year jubilee...
...Scotti bowed appreciatively at this portent of long life and career...
...Jersey City. Mr. McDermott is an opera goer, though not of the Golden Horseshoe variety. For years he has listened to the opera from a seat high in the family circle, where, be it observed, the acoustics are particularly fine. He has heard almost every performance in which Scotti has sung. He began a speech of homage to Scotti, but had spoken only a few words when emotion overcame him, and he could only clasp Scotti's hands...
...Scotti? This fellow of wisdom, wit and a sardonic smile, lost his customary poise in this outburst. A look of embarrassment and shyness was on his face, which is of that long, rather gaunt cast seen often in Italians. He bowed and stammered. He spoke a few heavily accented words of appreciation to the audience, and then spread out his arms, signifying that words failed...