Word: claudia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soprano Claudia Muzio (Mrs. Renato Liberti) wore diamonds in the ballroom scene of La Traviata. The same afternoon a writ of attachment had been filed on all her gowns and jewels by the Phillip Barnett Co., jewelers, who complained that she owed them...
With pomp and circumstance last week Italians began their formal opera season. In Rome Soprano Claudia Muzio sang in Norma and His Majesty King Vittorio Emanuele went to listen, with Queen Elena and Princess Giovanna. In Milan the opera was Meistersinger, the ovation for Conductor Arturo Toscanini. He leaves Milan soon for the U. S. where he will conduct the last half-season of Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony...
...some years an Italian opera starring Rosa Raisa or Claudia Muzio has opened the Chicago season. This year Rosa Raisa is expecting a baby (TIME, April 30). Her doctor forbids the ocean trip and she will spend the winter quietly in Italy. Claudia Muzio is in Buenos Aires. Her mother is sick. She cannot leave. Thus, its Italian wing considerably weakened, Chicago breaks precedent this year and takes a French start with Carmen...
...Request. Bill Abbott (Elliott Nugent) is a tanktown newsman summering in Manhattan for business reasons. Claudia Wynn (Verree Teasdale), a blandishing literary agent, wants to cut capers with him at Bar Harbor. Just then Mrs. Abbott (Norma Lee) comes bringing her fetching naïveté from the plains and salvages her husband in two acts of dubious psychology. But if the psychology is brittle, Mr. Nugent's comic gaucherie is quite successful. He elicits considerable amusement despite a trite plot and an uneven script. Furthermore, Miss Teasdale is as lush a blonde as one is likely...
...CLAUDIA PARTICELLA, THE CARDINAL'S MISTRESS: GRAND ROMANCE OF THE DAYS OP CARDINAL EMANUEL MADRUZZO-Benito Mussolini-A. & C. Boni ($2.00). *Today just such chairs are to be found in the sumptuous residence of Dictator Mussolini, no longer Socialist but Fascist...