Word: scotty
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...abandoned only a photograph of big-chested Enrico Caruso in a white-piped vest and a little bronze head which Caruso had made of himself. The man who waited nervously for the elevator had the hardest afternoon of his life ahead of him. He was Baritone Antonio Scotti, one of the last of the old-time opera-singers. That afternoon after 33 years at the Metropolitan he was singing his farewell...
...pursued by ha'nts-shades of great bygone baritones-he and the public knew after last week's performance that he had more than held his lead among his contemporaries in his progress towards the high place once held by Giuseppe Campanari, Maurice Renaud, Pasquale Amato, Antonio Scotti. Campanari is dead. Renaud and Amato are no longer singing. Scotti will give his farewell performance next week...
There remains no baritone of potentially historic acclaim save Tibbett who, essentially practical and intelligent about his career, wastes no time worrying about his temperament but proceeds methodically, laboriously to equip himself for great things. He knows that sooner or later he will inherit some of Scotti's roles. He has already sung Scarpia in road performances of Tosca. He would like to sing Falstaff. the role Scotti was singing that night eight years ago when the audience suddenly started shouting "Tibbett! Tibbett!" stopping the show for 20 minutes because it liked the young American who sang the part...
...haired Maria Jeritza gave her first breath-taking performance of Tosca and astounded New Yorkers by singing the Vissi d' arte lying flat on the stage; the night Marion Talley made her debut with a delegation from Kansas City to ballyhoo her placid, immature performance; the night Antonio Scotti, celebrating his 25th anniversary at the Metropolitan, received as tribute a brace of pigeons hidden in a great basket of flowers...
Birthdays. Dr. Francis Landey Patton, Princeton's onetime president and "Grand Old Man" (89); Wilhelm Hohenzollern (73) ; Vice President Charles Curtis (72) ; Walter Johannes Damrosch (70); Baritone Antonio Scotti (65); Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt...