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This week, for the 959th time, Society President Jules Masse took to the air over CKAC (Montreal). As always, he opened with Expressions a corriger cette semaine. His prime examples: "Hip! Hip! Hurray!" should give way to "Hourra! Bravo!" and in the counting house Frenchmen should speak of un verificateur de limes, not un auditeur de limes...
When Composer Henri Rabaud made an opera out of the 959th of the 1,001 Arabian Nights, he clothed it in music gay, elaborate and Oriental. The fact that parts of it recall Rimsky-Korsakov never seemed to matter. A good-natured plot and attractive sets helped make Marouf popular at the Paris Opera-Comique. The opera had eleven performances at the New York Metropolitan between 1917 and 1920. Though Composer Rabaud meant his lead to be a tenor, Baritone Giuseppe de Luca always sang the role at the Metropolitan. Last week the spring company resurrected Marouf...
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