Word: coloraturas
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...plump, semibald Andre Kostelanetz was No. 1 U. S. air traveler. He made weekly round-trip flights between New York and Los Angeles, in New York conducted his Chesterfield broadcasts, in Hollywood directed cinemusic for and wooed Coloratura Lily Pons. In 1937 he repeated the schedule, and last June the pair were married. As might be expected they quickly tired of a groundling honeymoon...
...second picture, "Hitting a New High," Lily Pons pours out profuse strains of unpremeditated coloratura, as well as the title song and "Let's Give Love Another Chance." Although the plot is moronic, the picture survives, thanks to Eric Blore and the radiant beauty of Miss Pons...
...Love and Hisses" introduces Simone Simon as a vocalist. She sings a thin, pleasing coloratura that will never become particularly popular, partially because she cannot hope to vie with her compatriot, Lily Pons, in this type of singing, partially because the public prefers the more throaty strains of Alice Faye...
...starless cast of the Salzburg Guild included: pretty Soprano Margarethe Menzel, 24, who once played the piano in a Viennese ladies' orchestra; pretty Contralto Hertha Glatz, 27, who has sung with the San Francisco Symphony; pretty Coloratura Soprano Marisa Merlo. so flip on the stage that audiences might not guess that she once nearly got herself to a nunnery; roly-poly Basso Alfred Hollander, once of the able German Theatre in Brunn, Czechoslovakia; Baritone Leo Weith, who sang the title role in the world premiere of Schwanda der Dudelsackpfeifer; Tenor Franco Perulli, onetime protege of Tenor Tito Schipa...
...third edition in Austria, translated into Italian, French and Czech, 35-year-old Novelist Lehmann last week made her debut in the U. S. A love story, in the same vein as Marcia Davenport's best-selling Of Lena Geyer, Mine Lehmann's story attempts no coloratura flights, is content to be an amiable romance...