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Rigoletto had big Chilean Baritone Carlo Morelli as the hunchbacked jester while Joseph Bentonelli (ne Benton) of Sayre, Okla. forced his light voice in an attempt to sound like the loud-mouthed Duke. The week's most inept performance was that of Gilda sung by San Francisco's Emily Hardy, who has been a member of her home company since 1933. In San Francisco Soprano Hardy has influential friends and on occasional appearances she has done herself proud. Chief trouble is that she has never developed a sound singing technique. Loyal San Franciscans admit that her voice...
...other side holds that listeners get more from the music if they are not straining to catch every word that is sung. Most translations are inept, a handicap to real enjoyment. In the first act of Madame Butterfly it is obvious to any onlooker that Pinkerton is making love to Cho-Cho-San. Curving melody flows from the orchestra while he sings, "Just like a little squirrel are all her pretty movements." To many Tristan would seem foolish delivering a literal translation of his part in the exalted love duet. The music would be reaching its grandest climax while...
This correlation of the elements that make a mature art belongs in the section meetings, but here the time is spent on quizzes and reviews. The interested and intelligent cannot express their ideas while the instructor is rehearsing fundamentals to the lazy and inept. Creative thinking and personal reactions are stifled in the bud, and useless repetition shuts off what might be enjoyable general discussion...
Following his pitched battle three weeks ago with honest but inept Ras Desta Demtu, son-in-law of Haile Selassie, Graziani took a long chance, cut a whole brigade of motorized cavalry loose from their base, sent them dashing north on half rations through some of the richest country in Ethiopia. Tactfully to stem the flood of personal publicity about Benito Mussolini's aviator sons, one of the first orders of Marshal Badoglio on taking command last November stated that henceforth neither the names of officers nor the movement of troops would be mentioned in dispatches. For his friend...
...plot, she has to become a boy is never clear; it is something about getting over to England with her father, Henry Scarlett (Edmund Gwenn). who wants to start life anew as a lace-smuggler. But once Miss Hepburn has her trousers on, and she and her inept, ingenuous miscreant of a parent have met Gary Grant, a cockney adventurer with smuggled diamonds in his bootheels. Sylvia Scarlett becomes good entertainment...