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...Elmer Rice's Pulitzer Prize-winning Street Scene. In November 1929, he shelved that, went into seclusion at his home eight miles from Stamford, Conn, for a third start. Last week he emerged, announced that "by the grace of God" he had finished libretto and score for Peter Ibbetson, his second grand opera; that he would not take a vacation until the orchestration was done?a task requiring three more months at least...
Already arrangements are under way for producing Peter Ibbetson at the Metropolitan next season. (''My guess," declared Composer Taylor, "is January or February.") Edward Johnson will create the role of Peter, Lucrezia Bori that of Mimsey. Lawrence Tibbett will have a part, probably the uncle...
Four new operas will be added to the repertoire: Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson, based on the novel of George du Maurier, in which will appear Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Tenor Edward Johnson, Baritone Lawrence Tibbett; Franz von Suppé's Boccaccio, a comic opera in which Soprano Maria Jeritza will appear as a male impersonator; Mussorgsky's The Fair at Sorochinsk, also a comic opera based on a story by Gogol; Le Preziose Ridicole, based on Molière's play...
...favor of Street Scene (TIME, March 18), current Pulitzer-prizewinning play by Elmer Rice, about Manhattan tene- ment life. Last week he announced that he had again changed his mind, that he is now moulding a libretto from George Louis Palmel la Busson Du Maurier's novel Peter Ibbetson, famed in the stage version acted by John Barrymore and Constance Collier. Metropolitan Director Giulio Gatti-Casazza has approved his last choice, ordered the opera complete and ready for delivery by spring...
Julia Hoyt (Mrs. Lydig Hoyt) joined the Stuart Walker stock company in Indianapolis. She will appear there in Peter Ibbetson July 23, together with McKay Morris and Julia McMahon...