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Puccini: The Heart of La Bohème (Orchestra of Milan's La Scala Opera, Umberto Berrettoni conducting, with Beniamino Gigli, Licia Albanese and others; Victor; 10 sides). An anthology containing practically all the brightest blossoms of Puccini's most popular opera, selected from Victor's previously released complete recording. The cast is brilliant, the singing rich in the best garlicky Italian tradition. Recording: good...
Before many seasons were over she was on her way to study in Paris with the parting blessing of the late Otto H. Kahn. In a few years, Impresario Giulio Gatti-Casazza had signed her for a Metropolitan debut as Mimi in La Boh...
Speaking of Caruso and his operatic antics in your Oct. 11 issue, I believe top honors should go to his trickery in a performance of La Bohème. Before the death scene, he removed two of the rollers from the ancient iron bed. . . . Every time the consumptive Mimi (Frances Alda) dared move, the bedstead shuddered, groaned, and gave every sign of collapsing...
...Bohème. In Manhattan, Carl Leila patiently explained his wife's condition to police: "I am an artist. I am very temperamental. During the discussion over our matrimonial problems, I became emotionally unstrung. I bit off the tip of her nose...
...early art training in Indianapolis and at the Chicago Art Institute, was later one of the first winners of the Harmon Foundation's awards for Negro artists. With his award money ($100) he bought a one-way ticket to Paris, eked out four years of vie de Bohème on $750, a handout of the late Otto H. Kahn. Artist Woodruff returned to the U.S. in 1931 to take his post as art instructor at Atlanta, has remained there ever since. In 1936 he spent a summer studying mural painting in Mexico with Diego Rivera...