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...roles she had never sung before. Only for these last two did she have the benefit of stage and orchestra rehearsals. But no one could have guessed it. To her colleagues she scarcely seemed human until the final Parsifal when she fell asleep on the stage, almost missed her cue...
...which lands her in prison, weasels her freedom only to philander in Paris with gamblers, procurers, swindlers. End comes in a sordid London attic where Lulu is brutally murdered by Jack the Ripper. Berg's orchestra then sounds out a shuddering scream. The New York Philharmonic took the cue faithfully, startled half its subscribers who still had to hear Soprano Agnes Davis emit a wailing postlude. Strapping young Agnes Davis, who has made her mark at Philadelphia Orchestra concerts, was supposed to be a Countess Geschwitz, as bewitched by Lulu as were the many men who loved...
This dramatic match last week ended 14 successive days of caroms, draw shots and four-cushion banks at Chicago's Sherman Hotel. Defending Champion Johnny Layton, a 3-to-1 favorite to repeat, fell behind at the start. When he met Hoppe, a fly zoomed on his cue ball, rested comfortably while Layton fidgeted. When the fly took flight, Layton fumbled, let Hoppe beat him for the first time in tournament competition. 50-to-49. Finally Cochran, toppled only by Arthur Thurnblad, 1931's winner, faced Hoppe, his onetime U. S. touring partner, previously beaten by Allen Hall...
...Adams (Peter Pan, The Little Minister) swept into a Manhattan courtroom to defend herself in a prosaic $200,000 lawsuit. Carried away with the scene, the World-Telegram reported: "The courtroom was crowded with staidly gowned women and mustachioed old gentlemen. . . . On November 6, 1905, Peter Pan's cue line, spoken in the nursery, read: 'Dear night light, that protects my sleeping babes, burn clear and steadfast tonight.' . . . Today an attorney said: 'Miss Adams, will you take the stand, please...
...Riley. Fat pencil in hand, he's the man who has put such people as Lowell Thomas, Ruth Etting, and the NBC Honeymooners on the air. His job is not performed at the microphone. His pencil may cross out one of Lowell Thomas lines. When the orchestra gets its cue for one of Ruth Etting's songs, Tom Riley, late of the University of Kentucky, is the man who penciled it in. Mr.Riley, in short, is a producer at NBC, one of the gentlemen who is as important to radio as Flo Zicfeld was to the Follics...