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...been an art collector and ban vivant when he decided, seven years ago, to take up painting seriously. To Manhattan he brought, besides the self-portrait, some clear, flowing Italian landscapes, some easy, informal portraits. He brought as well his wife, the Countess Wally, daughter of Arturo Toscanini, famed conductor, whose hobby is painting. Herself unmusical, Countess Castelbarco likes to wear shoes modeled on those of the Medicis, made of cork, with five-inch heels, three-inch soles...
...Finest ornament in the whole performance: the brilliant orchestral playing under Conductor Bodanzky (Siegfried's famous horn-calls are rarely played with such sureness and finish...
...however, pretty Bidu Sayao as Manon, Richard Crooks as Des Grieux, John Brownlee as Lescaut dished up a digestible version of Massenet's very Gallic score. Bruna Castagna, whose buxom, pleasant Carmen is the best Manhattanites have heard since the days of Geraldine Farrar, had a nearspat with Conductor Gennaro Papi when he tried to slow down her singing of the Habanera. But the incident passed off in mutual glares...
Last week, during a performance of Tosca, pandemonium broke loose in Chicago's Civic Opera House. Excited operagoers pounded the floor, stood on their seats and yelled frantic approval. Conductor Moranzoni tried to get the perform-ance going again, was stopped by a gusty chorus of "boos." For more than five minutes the demonstration continued. Finally the cause of it, a broad-shouldered, lusty-looking Italian tenor, Galliano Masini, repeated "E lucevan le stelle." And the opera was allowed...
...Angeles, a chance to fill in during an operatic emergency, a role in a cheap movie that turns into a hit. When he is on top of the world again, with Juana in a Gramercy Park hideaway in Manhattan, his evil genius appears-a suave, wealthy, possessive conductor and music patron named Hawes. Although Howard struggles in increasing panic, Juana guesses what is wrong, learns that Hawes had been obscurely responsible for his previous decline, tells him contemptuously that only men can sing. Treating bluntly a theme that was almost too delicate for Proust, Author Cain brings his story...