Word: bassos
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...house . . . The Prince, who came here for a vacation, and being evidently tired to be constantly with the same group of people, told Chaplin that he would like to spend such an evening with us." Cinemactor Chaplin scuttled off to have tea with large, booming Basso Feodor Chaliapin. who agreed to give a party at his house. Violinists Jacques Thibaud and Elman were "invited, of course, and altogether we were 22 people. "It was the most informal affair I've ever been to. Everybody did and behaved just as they felt. Thibaud and I played the Double Concerto...
Married. Mary Sybil Lewis, Arkansas-born Metropolitan opera singer and cinema star; and Robert L. Hague, vice president of Standard Shipping Co., onetime Shepherd of the Lambs Club; secretly; in Manhattan. The bride was once married to Basso Michael Franz Bohnen of the Metropolitan, the groom to Mme Edith Bobe, dressmaker...
...squawkings, came Tristan's voice and the shepherd's pipings which tell him that Isolde's ship is in sight. Although the orchestra (under Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler) was less clear than the singers, reception improved during the last 20 minutes. Best voice was that of Basso Josef Manowarda (King Mark). Others: Tenor Gotthelf Pistor (Tristan), Soprano Nanny Larsen-Todsen (Isolde), Baritone Rudolph Bockelmann (Kurvenal...
Next day's Parsifal was orchestrally poignant, lyric. Slower than most was Toscanini's tender reading. A magnificent Gurnemanz (Basso Ivar Andresen of the Metropolitan), a poetic Parsifal (Tenor Fritz Wolff), a comely but vocally insecure Kundry (Soprano Elisabeth Ohms), sang their way through Wagner's leisurely, sometimes philosophically turbid drama. The sets "dated from 1882 and looked...
...light opera (this year, Vincent Youman's & Herbert Stothart's Wild flower and Rudolf Friml's Firefly). Conductor is Isaac Van Grove. Of the able if not world-celebrated singers the most popular are Sopranos Myrna Sharlow and Josephine Lucchese. Contralto Marta Wittkowska, Tenor Forrest Lamont, Basso Herbert Gould. Last year the Zoo Opera was in need of patrons, felt that an endowment campaign would be necessary if it was to continue. One of its two great patrons died six years ago-Mrs. Mary Emery. The other was Mrs. Annie Sinton Taft, widow of Publisher Charles Phelps...