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Scene was the big Chicago Auditorium with some 200 Marshall Fielders massed on the stage. Fifty-four Chicago Symphony men were there as assistants. At Edgar Nelson conducted, got the concert off to a rousing start with the Hail Abode from Tannhaüser. Second half of the program was devoted to a concert arrangement of Cavalleria Rusticana in which the Chorus outshone Helen Jepsor of the Metropolitan Opera, whose voice was too pallid for the big dramatic aria. She made her chief impression with her shimmering blonde hair, her tight-fitting green gown, the way she made her exit...
...When thus hospitalized, each case will be under the care usually of a senior hospital staff man of recognized distinction in his field. Under this arrangement, any seriously sick man, or any man needing the care of highly trained specialists, will have available a grade of professional and hospital ser- vice not possible to give in the Stillman or any other infirmary...
...Africaine. So did big Basso Emanuel List, an Austrian who twelve years ago was singing in Manhattan cinemansions. Basso List's deep, dark voice was admirably suited to the beards he wore as the Landgrave in Tannhaüser, as Hunding in Walküre. But big, forceful bassos are much more common than slender, graceful tenors...
...looked as if he were sure to even matters for the 7 & 6 beating that Torrance gave him two years ago but Torrance got a 2 on the 30th and played beautiful golf to halve the match. Two other matches ? Burke v. Westland and Stout v. Sweet ser ? ended all-even after 36 holes. Rex Hartley had another chance to be bloody damnedmad after losing, 2 & 1, to Gus Moreland; so did his brother, who lost 3 & 2 to Maurice McCarthy Jr. Seaver pounded out prodigious drives to smother Fiddian...
Tosca, Lohengrin, Cavelleria, Walkure followed the first season. Rosenkavalier, Thaïs, Tannhaüser, Fedora, Jenufa, Jewels of the Madonna, Turandot, Violanta, Carmen have been added since. Tosca and its like have brought her most fame. All the world knows now that she sings the Vissi d'arte lying flat on the stage, that she rolls down the church steps in Cavalleria, dies in most horrible agony in Carmen and Fedora, has a dozen devices for making opera exciting. Artistically she has done better with Walküre, Rosenkavalier, Lohengrin, Tannhaüser. Few having seen will forget...