Printed seven years after the evening it describes: a night at La Traviata, with Tetrazzini singing.
Transcribed from original newspaper scans. Published by AseeksB.
WILL the lady who occupied, with others, the second box from the stage on the right hand side of the second floor of the Tivoli, on the evening of Sunday, the 12th day of February, 1905, while Mme. Tetrazzini sang in "La Traviata," please communicate with box numbered 150 of The Call?
| Newspaper | San Francisco Call, San Francisco, California |
|---|---|
| Date | August 30, 1912, page 14 |
| Written by | Not stated |
| Addressed to | One woman, seen at the opera |
| Where | Replies to a Call box |
Luisa Tetrazzini sang at the Tivoli in San Francisco before her fame spread worldwide, and the city adored her. What makes this notice remarkable is its patience: the writer remembered the box, the floor, the date and the opera, and was still asking seven years later. It ran on the same page as the widow's ad from 1912 in this archive. For more on opera and the personal ad, see Personal Ads in Literature.
Public domain in the United States: published before 1931.
Transcribed from the page image and checked against the original; spelling and punctuation are as printed, and words broken across lines are rejoined. The figures in the box number are the least clear part of the print. Capital letters are also as printed: papers set the first line of each ad in capitals, so the capitals stop wherever that line ended, sometimes in the middle of a word.
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