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...Tosca by Italian artists, the chorus of La Scala and the Milan Symphony, under Lorenzo Molajoli (Columbia, $21)-In-terruptions by an excited Italian claque are the only additions needed to make this Tosca sound completely realistic. All Conductor Molajoli's performances move at a swift, theatric pace...
...neck. It is the second production this season by David Belasco, who is ailing, and he has supplied characteristic touches: real rain, real flowers, a not particularly real play. Two years ago Miss Gahagan went abroad to study music. In Tonight or Never she sings snatches of Tosca very satisfactorily...
...July 13 large, capable Signora Toscanini lost her wedding ring, the next day broke her leg which has been so long healing that she was unable to go with her husband to the U. S. Without Signora Carla (his name for his wife, who always calls him "Tosca"), without his pretty daughters Wanda and Wally, without his pet griffon Picciu, he is alone save for a valet and Friend Max Smith, onetime musical critic of the New York American. Above all things he hates Manhattan's noise. He lives at the Hotel Astor, presumably because of his friend ship...
...Tosca, by Italian artists and orchestra of La Scala, Milan (Victor, $21)?The Puccini-Sardou opus more vividly performed than in many a leading opera house. The recording would warrant a blindfold competition with a firsthand hearing...
Died. Signora Elvira Donturi Puccini, widow of Composer Giacomo Puccini (Manon Lescaut, La Boheme, Tosca, Madame Butterfly); of heart disease; at Milan, Italy. In 1909 Signora Puccini served five months in jail for driving to suicide a servant girl whom she accused of having an affair with her husband. After the girl died she was cleared of Signora Puccini's accusation. Puccini died in 1924, aged...