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...Jugoslavs have struggled mightily since the War for political control of Albania, a republic bounded by Greece, Jugoslavia and the Adriatic. Last week the influence of Jugoslavia became definitely predominant at Tirana (the capital) when Ahmed Bey Zogu, the Jugoslav-born President of Albania, called to the Premiership Cena Bey, also a Jugoslav by birth. The Greek faction, headed by onetime (June-Dec. 1923) Premier Bishop Fan Stylian Noli (now exiled in Italy), were reported last week to be seeking aid from Premier Mussolini wherewith to regain control of Albania and oust therefrom the Jugoslavs...
...Atlanta season in his plans. Why? Well, I fell in love with Atlanta twelve years ago, and it is a love to which I have been faithful. It is a good thing that sentiment influences us. . . ." Hurriedly speeding north from Atlanta, the Metropolitan Company opened in Cleveland playing La Cena delle Beffe and Pagliacci for its first performance and Boris Godunoff for its second...
...Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, Lawrence Tibbett, young U. S. baritone who won fame overnight last year in a performance of Falstaff, succeeded Titta Ruffo as Neri in La Cena delle Beffe, again took high honors. Sophisticates who had gone expecting to hear Giordano's glittering, theatrical music sung by beautiful voices, to see unauthentic, bombastic acting, stayed after the performance to call "Tibbett! Tibbett!" and went home comparing favorably his performance with that of Lionel Barrymore in Benelli's stage version of The Jest...
...Manhattan, The Jest means the Barrymores. Any operatic version of that play was doomed to hypercriticism. But when it was sung last week at the Metropolitan as La Cena delle Beffe, the audience arose to whack long, loud, red-palmed approval. It was a triumph. The play is remembered as four long acts of highly emotionalized mistaken identity. For the opera, Playwright Sem Benelli made a masterfully condensed libretto without a situation lost, a point unitalicized. By comparison, Composer Umberto Giordano's music was the trifling virtuosity of a clever parodist? saved by Messrs. Gigli and Ruffo...
...novelties, he will put on four operas never before heard in the U. S.: Manuel de Falla's La Vida Breve, Spontini's Vestale (a work much admired by Wagner, which established Spontini's reputation in France in the early 19th century), Gioudano's La Cena delle Beffe, adapted from the play The Jest, and Stravinsky's Le Rossignol. He raised the price of seats: ground floor, $8.25 from $7.70, "dress" circle $4.95 from...