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...poisonings. The audience, Mr. Gatti knew, would make little effort to follow the complicated plot. The few powerful, cumulative moments in the music would not make up for the lack of familiar, fetching tunes. But Simone Boccanegra suited Mr. Gatti for the season's opening opera. His hero Verdi wrote it. It is spectacular. The first act might be slow but at least the scene in the big council chamber would be impressive, where Tibbett stills a riot and sets a curse on his hunchbacked henchman in a manner worthy of great Feodor Chaliapin...
...which started to play Conference football in 1928, played it without brilliant success until this season. Against Oregon, three weeks ago, the last play of the game was a 75-yd. run for a touchdown which won for U. C. L. A., 12 to 7. Against Stanford last week, Verdi Boyer, California reserve guard, blocked two punts that brought two touchdowns that gave Stanford its second thrashing in two weeks, 13 to 6, before a crowd of 55,000 at Los Angeles...
...program for the Pops concert at 8.30 o'clock tonight in Symphony Hall will be as follows: "Greetings to Bangor" March, R. B. Hall; "Poet and Peasant" Overture, Suppe; "Liebestraum", Listz-Herbert; "II-Trovatore" Fantasia, Verdi; "Finlandia", Sibelius; "Blue Danube" Waltz, Strauss; Second Hungarian Rhapsody, Liszt; "Mile. Modiste" Selection, Herbert; "Invitation to the Dance", Weber-Berlioz; "Stars and Stripes Forever", Sousa...
...seen over the footlights. But last week's nose he wanted to be particularly imposing. It was to be a nose to match trailing velvet robes, an ermine cape and a regal beehive headgear, a nose that would be worthy of the U. S. premiere of a Verdi opera (75 years after it was written) and of the biggest role that Tibbett has ever had at the Metropolitan...
...Orpheus is probably the bulkiest, most troublesome talisman on record. But nearly all musicians are superstitious, carry some sort of charm. Arturo Toscanini keeps sewed in his dress clothes' pocket a picture of his three children taken when they were little and a visiting card on which Composer Giueseppe Verdi sent him New Year's greetings shortly before he died. Caruso used to have every costume made with two little pockets on either side. In them he kept vials of salt water and if he felt thirsty he turned his back on the audience, took a drink. Soprano Rosa Ponselle...