Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fishing for his fortune; the bottom of the sea with its fish-folk orgy. Of the performers, Tenor Edward Johnson as Sadko sang sternly to the merchants, but beguilingly to the sea princess. Many in the audience reflected that he alone of all great male opera singers has the grace desirable for so fanciful a part. Others, however, wished that he could have achieved more of the heroic, legendary dimensions suggested by the role. Soprano Editha Fleischer sang sensuously. Conductor Tullio Serafin drew out of his orchestra all the scintillating tonality which the composer could have desired of the score...
...Grace Moore, sightly, luxuriating Metropolitan Opera soprano, went last week to Jellico, Tenn., to sing "I Love You Truly" and "At Dawning" at her sister Emily's wedding. On the way she confided to pressmen that in her sound film debut, recently arranged for, she would appear as the late, great, prudish Jenny Lind. Her second picture will probably be The Merry Widow, made jointly with Baritone Lawrence Mervil Tibbett...
Sinclair Lewis, best-selling author (Main Street, Babbitt, Elmer Gantry), petitioned that he be allowed to pay his onetime wife Grace Livingstone Hegger Lewis $200 monthly alimony instead of $1,000, having met with "financial reverses...
...majority of the directors of Fox Film Corp. and Fox Theatres Corp. But when the bankers asked for these resignations they were not forthcoming. Inasmuch as the present management cannot be displaced until April 15 (the annual stockholders' meeting) Mr. Fox has three and one-half months' grace. During this period he might, of course, succeed in paying off his notes and resume unquestioned control. So the bankers, who had planned to lend the Fox companies $100,000,000 (by underwriting an issue of first mortgage bonds) held up their financing plans and waited to see how successful...
CHATS WITH THE MACFADDEN FAMILY -Grace Perkins-Lewis Copeland...