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Back to the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, after a six-year furlough, came Gianni Schicchi, one-act opera by Giacomo Puccini, last of an uninspiring triptych. Giuseppe De Luca was Schicchi, the canny peasant who, to oblige avaricious relatives, substitutes himself for the corpse only to double-cross them and leave everything to himself; was a good enough buffoon to keep people's minds off the diluted melodies sketchily flung together; and sent them home snickering...
This year it rose upon Frances Alda, Beniamino Gigli, Giuseppe de Luca, Adam Didur, upon dancer a la Russe Adolph Bolm. In former years it has risen upon Caruso, Ruffo, Martinelli, Galli-Curci, upon famed and glorious chanteur a la Russe Chaliapin...
...This company, dubbed the American-Italian-French Grand Opera Company, has secured the services of Mary Garden and Rosa Raisa, also of Elvira de Hidalgo, Toti dal Monte, Queena Mario, Lucille Chalfont, Grace Moore, Yvette Ruzel, Vanda Nomicos, Eva Clark, Mary Lawrence, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Giacomo Rimini, Giuseppe de Luca, Adamo Didur, Georges Baklanov...
...Paris (French) : Pianist Ignace Paderewski; Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Director of the Metropolitan Opera Company; Danseuse Galli; Baritone de Luca; Conductor Bamboschek; Mrs. David Belasco; Al Woods, "bedroom man;" Mrs. Molla Mallory, one-time tennis champion; Gilbert Seldes, onetime Dial editor; Stuart Olivier, General Manager of the Baltimore News and author of The Bride (play produced on Broadway) ; Hamilton Fish Armstrong, Managing Editor of Foreign Affairs; Pierre Cartier, famed jeweler...
...what he had seen all through the act that was so funny. He thought I was poking an impudent joke at him, and he grew indignant. I saw that I had made a mistake somewhere, and shut up. Later I discovered that the humorous expression was natural to De Luca...