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Caruso, Destinn, Martinelli, Garden,
Tetrazzini, Plancon, Scotti, McCormack,
Louise Homer and Farrar. That collection of singers in one opera troupe, said Madame Doree in a beforethecurtain announcement at the Palace (where the new act is playing this week) would cost $25,000 weekly. To
save the management a little money
Madame engaged ten substitutes besides
herself (at the piano) and she has the ten give their impressions of the $25,000 lot of warblers.
Raoul Romito, as Caruso;—Madame Gina de Sanctis as Destinn, Luige Maniero as Martinelli, Edith Sanders as Mary Garden, Joseph Cavadore as McCormack, Giulo Adami as Plancon, Hazel Sanborn
as Tetrazzini, Grace Lyon as Louise
Homer, Rainmondo Scala as Scotti.
The vaudeville patrons may applaud it as they will any operatic high ranges, but the vaudeville regular, if he can keep awake and hear everything the Madame says, then watch the rest of it, will laugh his head off.
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Variety 45:7 (01/12/1917)