Word: fluting
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...Opera Company. It was not the occasion she had hoped for. In February she was to have been the heroine of Verdi's Rigoletto. But laryngitis interfered. Her debut, instead, was at a Sunday night concert. Her biggest test: the Mad Scene from Lucia in which an exacting flute kept tabs on her trills and cadenzas...
Miss Brico will say little about the individual players because "all the ladies are jealous." But a few were conspicuous for their labors last week. There was young Julia Drumm who played capably on the flute; wiry Jeannette Scheerer who understands a clarinet; Tympanist Muriel Watson who practices on boards at home because she has no drums of her own; slender Maxine Scott who wrapped a tuba over her shoulder and puffed manfully through a Wagner finale...
...wife was nervous she kept it bravely from the audience. Finally she said "If you'll excuse," handed the Pasha the key to the chest and swept off to bed. The Pasha wanted a cigaret but his lighter failed him. So he listened to a flute which was supposed to be a nightingale, then summoned a servant who helped him lug the suspicious box into the garden, there dig a grave...
Pretty Helen Jepson has a husband who plays the flute, a two-year-old daughter as blonde as herself. Pretty Helen Jepson is an expert fisherwoman and her radio contracts have already made her rich. But pretty Helen Jepson had little opportunity to prove herself more than a light, agreeable singer last week in the Metropolitan's latest and most dismal venture into the realm of native opera...
...Manhattan premiere, critics unanimously acclaimed it with all the adjectives at their command. Admirers of Author Yeats-Brown will find it as faithful to the spirit of his book as it is faithless to the text. Good shot: Lieut. Forsythe discovering that the squeakings of a reed flute, which he plays to annoy Captain McGregor, have attracted the unfavorable attention of a cobra...