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...High; his Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr.; his frequent campaign companions, Judge & Mrs. Samuel I. Rosenman; his yachting friend, Vincent Astor; his uncle, Frederic A. Delano; his bright young Brain Trust lawyer, Tom Corcoran, with a broad Irish smile, who made the evening so gay with his accordion that Basso Marvin Mclntyre burst into song. Among them circulated Mrs. Roosevelt in a white satin evening gown and Mother Sarah Delano Roosevelt, thoroughly enjoying the sweet cider...
...that of Mary Lewis, jolly blonde soprano who had run away from foster parents in Little Rock, Ark., attained the Ziegfeld Follies and suddenly thereafter the Metropolitan Opera. After her rags-to-riches headlines pretty Mary Lewis was quickly forgotten by most Manhattan music writers. She married German Basso Michael Bohnen, soon divorced him for wealthy Robert L. Hague, oil and shipping tycoon...
Stravinsky's autobiography testifies to the fact that he at least is smugly sure of himself. He is self-critical only when speaking of his school days. He got consistently poor marks. His father, a basso at the Imperial Opera, wanted to make him a lawyer, consented to a musical career only when Rimsky-Korsakov was sufficiently impressed to take the boy for a pupil...
...that I was the one with the greatest guilt in Kirov's death," went on Zinoviev, gradually getting into better & better voice until at last he thrust the microphone impulsively away from him and burst into the full-throated oratory of his younger days as Bomb Boy. The basso-profundo keynote of Zinoviev's confession came as he boomed: "I went all the way from party power to counterrevolution and terrorism and actually to Fascism! For Trotskyism plus terrorism is Fascism! I abandoned Karl Marx." Arabian Nights. In his dispatch the next afternoon United Press Correspondent Norman Deuel...
...Cincinnati Zoo Opera spruced up its ten-week repertoire with Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson and The King's Henchman, offered such singers as Bruna Castagna, Anna Leskaya, Rosa Tentoni. Edward Molitore, Norman Cordon. Cordon, a North Carolina basso, used to sing on the Baume Bengue radio hour, made a small hit with the Metropolitan Opera's late spring season (TIME. May 25). C In Atlantic City the Steel Pier Opera opened its ninth season, with Henri Elkan conducting Martha. Ambitiously its repertoire included Bach's Phoebus and Pan, Beethoven's Fidelia, Debussy...