Word: sold-out
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...Palace entertained strangers at her 14 performances: some who remembered the Cavalleria at the Metropolitan Opera 34 years ago when Calve made her debut; some who had seen her first Carmen, a slim, sensual hoyden who attracted 15 sold-out houses in a single season. No words were too dear for her then. The late Henry Theophilus Finck of the New York Evening Post has said: "She had everything in her favor that a fairy could possibly bestow on an operatic artist: a beautiful and amazingly expressive face; a voluptuous figure, with a rare grace of movement; a voice which...