Word: grandtier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last season at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House (TIME, Dec. 31). Into the Metropolitan that night went The March of Time's photoreporters (in top hats & tails) with the first sound-camera equipment ever permitted inside the old opera house during a performance. From a grandtier box wired for sound two of the reporters filmed the action and music on the stage, the swank audience. Others followed Gatti-Casazza backstage, saw what he saw through his private peephole to the stage, heard what he heard in his office as Aida progressed, caught his unposed facial expressions...
...career. Besides, last week she was busy with other plans which would once again bring her name and her voice to millions of music-lovers. When the New York opera season begins in December, she will be back at the Metropolitan?not singing on the stage, but in a grandtier box on Saturday afternoons broadcasting descriptions of the operas which are to be put on the air by Lambert Co. (Listerine). Her comments are bound to be keen and intelligent. She still can sway any kind of audience...
...Time stumbles on." shouted Raymond Knight, a National Broadcasting Company announcer who mastered the ceremonies from a grandtier box. He had written a comical libretto called "A Half Century of Progress." Lily Pons was the Metropolitan in infancy. Ponselle's bicycle act was for the gay '90's. An important debut was remembered for 1906 and white-haired Geraldine Farrar bowed from the audience. Then Tenor Melchior appeared as the 1907 Salome, did the Dance of the Seven Veils to show why the Metropolitan's directors objected...
...singers sang for him. Oldtime Metropolitan stars returned to the stage to honor him.* Swayed by the wholehearted sentiment which opera-folk thrive on, the house fairly shook with shouts when the Metropolitan ballet shaped itself into a giant birthday cake, held up 25 candles. From his grandtier box Mr. Gatti gravely gave the Italian salute but no amount of persuasion would bring him to the stage from which he took his last bow in 1908, standing between Conductor Arturo Toscanini and Tenor Enrico Caruso...
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