Music: In Manhattan

Summer is over. Italian names are being inscribed in the leading New York hotels. Two opera companies, taking advantage of the Metropolitan's comparatively late opening, are simultaneously offering their wares.

The San Carlo run opens at the Jolson Theatre on Sept. 22. Impresario Fortune Gallo will present standard repertoire, spiced by the appear ance of two important "finds" in the way of singers. Tina Paggi, Italian coloratura soprano signed up at Chicago last year, has just swept South America and Asheville, S. C, with enthusiasm and, it is said, has inundated box offices with buckets...

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