Cast
(see notes)
Show Dates
Notes
PROGRAM
Mascagni, Iris -- Overture; Hymn to the Sun
With Opera Chorus
Scenic effects by Armando Agnini
Gaetano Merola, conductor
Verdi, La Forza del Destino -- Pace, pace
Elisabeth Rethberg, soprano
Richard Lert, conductor
Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue
Bernard Katz, piano
Gaetano Merola, conductor
Donizetti, Lucia di Lammermoor - Sextet
Emily Hardy, soprano
Eva Gruninger, mezzo
Giovanni Martinelli, tenor
Raymond Marlowe, tenor
Douglas Beattie, bass
Alfredo Gandolfi, baritone
Antonio Dell'Orefice, conductor
A Few Remarks by One of the Directors
Ballet
Mondonville, Arlecchinata
Adolph Bolm, Evelyn Wenger, Nikolai Vasilieff
Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian Carnival (from "The Snow Maiden")
Evelyn Wenger, Nikolai Vasilieff, Betsy Moran, principal dancers
San Francisco Opera Ballet
Adolph Bolm, Director
Gaetano Merola, conductor
INTERMISSION
Joseph S. Thompson, Master of Ceremonies
Drawing for the Grand Prize
The lucky number will be drawn by Miss Tasia Pogre
A Few Introductions
Marion Evans, assisting
Rossini, William Tell -- Overture
(no conductor could be found at the time of going to press)
The Dream That Came True
Wellington, Rowland, Howell
How the Stars Got Their Start
Edna Elizabeth Smith
Coe Glade
Giovanni Martinelli
Tito Schipa
Anna Young also takes a prominent part
Assisted by Helen Green
A Tropical Breeze Blows In
Lani and the Royal Tahitians
Der Ring Worm Turns
Louis D'Angelo
Tito Schipa Jazz Band
Part I --Lulu Fox Trot -- words and music by Tito Schipa
The orchestra furnished by National Broadcasting Company.
Chorus by San Francisco Opera Co.
Ballet by Opera Ballet School
Anna Young volunteered.
Part II -- Tango Schipa
Elena Schipa, Lillian Thomas
Four of a Kind
Giovanni Martinelli
Ezio Pinza
Rosie and Josephine (NB: Rosie and Josephine were donkeys)
Marek Windheim Wired for Sound
Renato Bellini at the piano
Constancy, or Faithful Until the Last
Hans Clemens
Dorothy Hanan
Raymond Marlowe
Jack Howell
Josephine Tessier
Ward Byron
Douglas Beattie
George Spivak
Signed, Sealed and Delivered
Helen Jepson
Louis D'Angelo
The Doge's Palace