Word: sopranoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Annually now the Metropolitan Opera Company feeds the public a big human interest story. Three years ago it was Sopranos Marion Talley and Mary Lewis. Last year it was Soprano Grace Moore. All were "poor girls" who had their dreams, worked hard, lived right. This year so far honors go to Soprano Clara Jacobo, 28, daughter of an Italian grocer, who made her debut last week in Il Trovatore...
Washington last week took sentimental delight in a concert by the musical Homers. Mother-Contralto Louise Dilworth Beatty Homer and Daughter-Soprano Louise Homer Stires* were stars, made a homely picture standing together singing the songs of Father-Composer Sidney Homer to the filial accompaniments of Younger Daughter Katharine Homer...
...opera was Korngold's Tote Stadt, the first given in German after the War. The curtain was five minutes late and the Metropolitan curtain is never late. Patrons wondered. None knew the fault was the new soprano's, so frightened backstage that no sound would come from her throat. She ate some pineapple. She crossed herself once, ten times. Manager Gatti whispered encouragement. The curtain went up and Jeritza made her debut. With her singing and her acting she was a sensation...
Sued for Divorce. Giulio Gatti-Casazza, famed hirsute & diplomatic impresario of the Metropolitan Opera Company of Manhattan; by Frances Alda, dusky soprano; after 18 years of wedded life...
Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley of Baltimore, last week celebrating mass at his native Athlone, Ireland, had a greater pair of soloists than ever graced his Baltimore service. Tenor John McCormack (also born at Athlone) and Soprano Lucrezia Bori (born at Valenzia, Spain, but summering with the McCormacks) sang for the archbishop...