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Sued for Separate Maintenance. Michael Franz Bohnen, Metropolitan Opera Company Basso; by Mary Lewis, blonde and sometimes beautiful soprano; in Los Angeles. Married in 1927 by Mayor Walker, dramatic demonstrations of love gave Mr. Bohnen and Miss Lewis the reputation of being an ideal couple. Last week Miss Lewis charged that: In Manhattan Mr. Bohnen tried to make her leap from a window; in Paris he dragged her around by the hair; in Berlin he banged her head against a door until the hinges broke; in Los Angeles he slammed her against a wall. After a settlement had been made...
Other new voices will be: Elisabeth Ohms, Dutch dramatic soprano, with a reputation won at the Munich and Covent Garden Operas; Antoine Trantoul, French tenor of the Paris Opera and Opera Comique; Alfredo Gandolfi, baritone, favorite interpreter in his native Italy of such roles as Don Giovanni; Tancredo Pasero, basso, of European and South American fame. Josef Rosenstock, conductor, will be imported from Wiesbaden to replace Artur Bodanzky; Ernst Lert, stage director of La Scala at Milan, to replace Samuel Thewman...
...unspeakable satisfaction." Condescendingly he added: "If the people are ever persuaded that the original is better than my version, they will put this aside and perform Boris from the original score." The Rimsky version became a model for opera houses of the world and the medium for Basso Chaliapin's incomparable Tsar. Then, last year. Professor Paul Lamm, working under the music section of the Russian State Publishing Department at Moscow, published a version "in accordance with the autographed manuscripts, including hitherto unpublished scenes, episodes, fragments, and variants"-the original Boris. In this form it was produced...
...ringing and across the square that separates the Cathedrals of the Assumption and the Archangels there files a procession ?deacons, sons of boyars, boyars and the new Tsar himself. Gloria! Gloria! it is Boris Godounov. ... So goes the Boris of Composer Modeste Petrovich Moussorgsky, the Boris of Basso Feodor Ivanovitch Chaliapin, given last week for the first time this year at the Metropolitan Opera...
...Only one of the Metropolitan Opera's artists, Basso Leon Rothier, is a Frenchman...