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The majority of the American students enrolled in the summer school in Tivoli had come for voice training and for experience coaching, in the hope of an eventual debut with one of the smaller opera companies of which there were many in the Italy of the 20s. Madame Cavallini, blonde, obese and authentic, moved them all along the road to stardom, well equipped with all the inflections of the belcanto; in her spare time she drove off in a carazzollon her husband beside her, to take the baths at the warm sulfur springs not far from Tivoli, leaving Mimis? warbling from every garret in Montmatre.

But, unlike the few pianists and violinists,