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Mezzo replacement

by | 3:13 am | Aug 19, 2007

Kitty: I was reading a book the other day.

Carlotta: Reading a book!

Kitty: Yes. It’s all about civilization or something, a nutty kind of a book. Do you know that the guy said that machinery is going to take the place of every profession?

Carlotta: Oh, my dear, that’s something you need never worry about.

Dinner at Eight, 1933

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  • iltenoredigrazia says:

    No electronic gizmo will ever come close to the plush voice of that Butterfly. (Yes, Renata Tebaldi, in case has been so deprived not to recognize her.)

    on August 19, 2007 at 11:38 AM