Last week the National Federation of Music Clubs invited Soprano Rosa Ponselle to head the Honor List in their new Hall of Fame for rising U. S. artists. Hereafter, within the Federation, Nov. 15 will be known as Rosa Ponselle Day. On that day ten years ago Ponselle, daughter of poor Italian immigrants, made her Metropolitan Opera debut, singing Leonora in La Forza del Destino, with Caruso.
In Budapest, for the first time in history, an opera was called off on account of rain. It was to be Offenbach's La Belle Helene at the...
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