Word: titta
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...familiar names are absent from the list of members for next season: Florence Easton, soprano, has asked for a year's rest; Titta Ruffo, baritone, has gone into the "talkies"; Feodor Chaliapin will not return until season after next; Marion Talley is retiring" to a farm...
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...Carmen Reggio, obscure concert singer, last week wagered the Italian Artists' Alliance (of which Titta Ruffo, famed Metropolitan baritone, is president) that she could walk up stairs in less than half an hour. Mme. Reggio is 38 years old, she weighs 104 pounds, and the stairs to which she referred were the 1.358 steps of the 792-foot Woolworth Building, in Manhattan...
...Titta Ruffo, famed Metropolitan Opera baritone: "I was violently attacked last week by L'Impero of Rome, a semi-official Fascist news organ. L'Impero recalled that the murdered millionaire socialist Deputy Giacomo Matteotti (TIME, June 23, 1924, et seq.) was my brother-in-law, and accused me of anti-Fascist leanings similar to his. Italians resident in the U. S. were called upon to boycott my performances and to treat me with violence...
...Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, Lawrence Tibbett, young U. S. baritone who won fame overnight last year in a performance of Falstaff, succeeded Titta Ruffo as Neri in La Cena delle Beffe, again took high honors. Sophisticates who had gone expecting to hear Giordano's glittering, theatrical music sung by beautiful voices, to see unauthentic, bombastic acting, stayed after the performance to call "Tibbett! Tibbett!" and went home comparing favorably his performance with that of Lionel Barrymore in Benelli's stage version of The Jest...