Word: acted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Administration of the funds will remain in the hands of the Album Staff although the panel of three nationally known editors or writers will be selected annually to act in an evaluating capacity...
...from Italy with a little opera company that was stranded, bankrupt, in Chicago last winter (TIME, Feb. 10). She had offered herself to the Met, passed muster at an audition and was launched without fanfare. She was somewhat dumpy of figure, but the audience soon forgave that: she could act and she could sing, with fire and with control. Of nine debuts so far, hers was the only unqualified success...
Season-ticket subscribers, who buy their season's supply of opera without knowing what they are getting, were beginning to wonder. The Met had stars who could both sing and act-Melchior, Tagliavini, Traubel, Albanese, Pons, Pinza. Four out of the six had yet to be heard this season. Some stars whom season subscribers paid to see now put in only two or three "prestige" performances a year to keep their names bright for the movies and the cigarette ads, the guest appearances on Sinatra programs, and the fat recording contracts...
...time the curtain was down on the first act, the audience was muttering...
...desire to die was forcing his weak voice through his shuddering lips and ignoring his pain, which was great, for he was blasted by what he did. He was like an insect that falls on a hot stove and is withered, and what he did felt like an act of cruelty to the whole court. It rejected the life that...