All-American

Signer Fortune Gallo, famed director of the San Carlo Opera Company, last week sent out a letter to music clubs, to critics, to concert managers. "I," said Fortune Gallo, "have announced my willingness to form an All-American Opera Company for the presentation of the works of American composers in English, next season . . . The first opera will be the new American opera Alglagla . . . by composer Frank de Leone [Akron, Ohio]. . . . The company will comprise not less than 50 persons....

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