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Some 3,500 people in the new War Memorial Opera House, 15,000 in huge Exposition Auditorium and another great crowd outside City Hall, heard pretty little Lily Pons do her trills and cadenzas in San Francisco last week. People who were too poor or too late to get tickets...
The crowd in the Auditorium saw as well as heard Lily Pons. After the Lucia Mad Scene she whizzed there with a motorcycle escort, received a chrysanthemum "key to San Francisco's heart'' from its Florist-Mayor Angelo J. Rossi. The popular demonstrations reminded oldtimers of San...
*Painting by Artist J. Campbell Phillips of Manhattan. *In addition to Pons, this year's stars include Sopranos Claudia Muzio, Maria Mueller, Queena Mario; Contralto Kathryn Meisle; Tenors Dino Borgioli, Francesco Merli, Mario Chamlee; Baritones Richard Bonelli, Friedrich Schorr, Alfredo Gandolfi; Basso Ezia Pinza.
In a brief musical comedy interlude she married August Mesritz, an elderly Dutch retired lawyer and publisher. Husband Mesritz persuaded his young wife to study singing. Every day for three years he took her to the studio of Teacher Alberto de Gorostiaga (who comes in now for 5^ of all...
Lily Pons insists that she will sing only ten years, then retire. With French frugality she should be able to. But even smart prima donnas find it hard to stop while they are successful. At 61 last year, Luisa Tetrazzini was singing in U. S. cinemansions.