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Boston Opera House--"Falstaff", by the Chicago Opera Company at 8. o'clock...
...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...
...Advocate's remorse could not wipe out the past. Lampy lived; not only lived, but flourished on the jokes the CRIMSON kindly furnished him. Indeed, the CRIMSON may assert a modest pride in Lampy's modest humor, since the CRIMSON often is to Lampy what Prince Harry was to Falstaff--the inspiration, source, and fountain...
Monday, February 1, evening: Verdi's "Falstaff...
...Falstaff was given. U. S. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, who stopped the performance last year, sang his monologue ably but failed to get more applause than he deserved...