Word: sopranoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Carlo run opens at the Jolson Theatre on Sept. 22. Impresario Fortune Gallo will present standard repertoire, spiced by the appear ance of two important "finds" in the way of singers. Tina Paggi, Italian coloratura soprano signed up at Chicago last year, has just swept South America and Asheville, S. C, with enthusiasm and, it is said, has inundated box offices with buckets of real gate-receipt money...
...barrel chest and amber voice - a man like a hogshead of honey; Attilio Boschi, young baritone, who, it is declared, is destined to be "the second Scandiani"; the Rev. Antonio Grimaldi, basso at the Sistine Chapel for 16 years, a famed authority on ecclesiastical music; Eugenio Andriselli, adult male soprano and assistant organist at St. Peter's. In all, there are twelve singers. Their programs will include selections from -the religious music of the sedate Palestrina, operatic numbers and folk-melodies of Southern Italy which, it is said, have never before been heard...
...France (French)?Milton S. Hershey (chocolate); Anna Case, soprano, onetime of the Metropolitan Opera Company; 50 ex-U. S. Volunteer Ambulance Drivers, to revisit the Western Front...
...first proposed to give a series of symphony concerts in the Hollywood Bowl, scepticism was felt as to the probable attendance. Some thought that Hollywood would be there, some stoutly maintained that Hollywouldn't. The debate is over. Last week 12,000 people listened while Alice Gentle, lyric soprano, sang solos, supported by the Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Dr. Alexis Kail...
...West Point Army Band, accompanied by the penetrating soprano voice of Nannette Guilford, delivered the National Anthem. Margaret Anglin, tragedienne, gave a dramatic reading. Frederick A. Wallis, Commissioner of Correction, made a speech on "spiritual tendencies." A battery of "seventy-fives" roared a salute of thirteen guns. One of the gunners caught his hand in a breechblock. A physician had to be called...