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...performance when Stella Andreva caught a cold. Critics had liked her better four days earlier when she made her Metropolitan debut singing Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata. Even then they felt a little uneasy about her pitch. In Rigoletto her colorless, inexact rendition of the great Caro Nome and her literal, lifeless acting convinced few that she was the outraged, unhappy daughter of a court fool. Lawrence Tibbett was more imaginative as her hunchback father, used his strong baritone with an accuracy that seemed almost reproving...
...friend Caro had a quieter career, learned more from his experiences, lived to keep going the battle that Mudarra lost. Caro loved sad-faced gentle Lucia with quiet constancy, was mocked by his friend for his simplicity in "chewing iron," which was the colloquial term for carrying on a courtship by talking through the iron bars of a sweetheart's window. Mudarra recognized no such restraints. He swept Lucia off her feet, then confessed his betrayal to Caro. The two men fought with knives, found that they did not have the heart to kill each other. Later Lucia bore...
...this happened in a time of growing tension. The aged Marquis of Peral, in whose olive groves Caro and Mudarra worked, had taken less & less interest in his lands, turned them over to hard, thieving Argote, political boss in the days before Alfonso abdicated, who grafted, plotted, had Anarchist troublemakers killed. When the olive-pickers stormed the groves in a dispute about wages, the punishment was drastic: 80 men were arrested by the Civil Guard. When a protest meeting was held it was fired on, and 24 were killed. The aged Marquis woke up too late to a realization...
...Dream Too Much (RKO) is an operatic formula picture, cut to fit the coloratura voice, the small, neat form, the pretty face and the sharp French accent of Lily Pons. The operatic basis for its plot is the one which enables Miss Pons to carol Caro Nome from Rigoletto to her provincial music teacher, to make a big splash in Paris, to exhibit her navel in Hindu undress as she negotiates the spectacular Bell Song from Lakmé. Introducing a second formula, Henry Fonda, a U. S. musician who thinks he can compose opera, picks up Miss Pons, performs...
...thin, dark-eyed daughter of Lady Bessborough, fell in love with him. Although a great many noble ladies felt the same passion, "Lady Caro," who was also affectionately called "Ariel," "Savage," & "Squirrel," outdid them all. She disguised herself as a page in order to get into Byron's rooms, waited in the street while he attended parties to which she had not been invited, tried to stab herself when he spoke crossly to her, forged his handwriting to get his picture from his publisher. Driven to distraction by her, Byron found companionship with her mother-in-law, Lady Melbourne...