An obscure California schoolteacher sat down at his desk one day last week, flicked on his pince-nez and proudly put his name to a contract which soon was advertised all over the U. S. In Manhattan a slender Irish girl of 20 bubbled to reporters: "I'm thrilled to the ears." From his murky backstage office at the Metropolitan Opera, big, bearded Giulio Gatti-Casazza had just announced his plans for next season.
The California schoolteacher was John Laurence Seymour, 41, a softspoken, nervous little man who lives with his mother in Sacramento, teaches...
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