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Many new singers are on the Chicago list this year. The sopranos are: Frieda Leider of the Berlin Staatsoper, in her heyday, like Olszewska and well-established in Europe; Margarita Salvi, young, slender and Spanish; Eva Turner, English and ebullient; Alice Mock, a Californian with European experience, to make her debut as Micaela in the opening Carmen; and Antoinetta Consoli of Lawrence, Mass.. who will sing Frasquita; Marion Claire, 24-year-old Chicagoan; Hilda Burke, Baltimorean; Patricia O'Connell, Alabaman and daughter of a New York Times staff writer. Contraltos: Ada Paggi, Italian, and Coe Glade, 22-year...
...George B. Christian) and Mrs. Christian, Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, Dr. and Mrs. Jason Noble Pierce (the President's minister), Dr. and Mrs. Stanley Rinehart, Governor and Mrs. Trumbull of Connecticut. Afterwards, seated on gilded chairs in the East Room, the guests were regaled with the notes of Alberto Salvi (harpist) and Miss Anna Case (soprano...
...touch that rivaled even Nijinsky, the famous Russian cheer leader. I have seen the Michigan leader, apparently boxed by substitutes on the side lines, leap high into the air and with a deft gesture of the index finger draw from his cheering section a perfect salvo, sometimes two salvi, of applause. I have seen him handle the Michigan "locomotive," a clumsy oratorio at best, with a deftness of forearm movement and an utter absence of physical effort which transformed it into a veritable octavo volume of sound with deckled edges...