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...table came no speeches. Trust-division President Merrel P. Callaway announced that the evening's entertainment would be "something more acceptable." At 10:12 p.m., expectant bankers & guests saw the gold plush curtains of the ballroom stage draw slowly apart, reveal a piano against which leaned Miss Helen Jepson. A pretty, blonde soprano who reached radio fame with Rudy Vallee and Paul Whiteman, Miss Jepson is beginning her second year with the Metropolitan Opera Company (TIME, Nov. 25). She sang Ah, forse e lui from La Traviata, an English folk song, a Viennese waltz song. Bankers whistled, shouted, cheered...
...last winter a soprano so shapely, so vividly blonde that she seemed more like a transient from Hollywood than a potential singer of real grand opera. In the Pasha's Garden was such a flaccid, sterile piece, offered such feeble opportunities that critics would only say that Helen Jepson was unusually pretty...
...strength of her London success and her box-office power Cinemactress Grace Moore has been re-engaged. Pretty Helen Jepson will be given more leading roles than she had last season. Outstanding contraltos are Karin Branzell, Doris Doe, Gladys Swarthout, Cyrena Van Gordon, Rose Bampton, Kathryn Meisle and Marion Telva, who has been badly missed since she left the Metropolitan in 1931. Outstanding tenors: Lauritz Melchior, Paul Althouse, Giovanni Martinelli. Charles Hackett. Nino Martini. The baritones: Lawrence Tibbett, John Charles Thomas, Friedrich Schorr, Richard Bonelli. The bassos: Ezio Pinza, Ludwig Hofmann, Emanuel List, Leon Rothier...
...next ten years Helen Jepson grubbed her way. She married George Roscoe Possell, a struggling young flautist, to whom she bore a daughter as blonde as herself. To go on studying she did the family laundry, scrubbed her own floors. First real luck came year and a half ago when Paul Whiteman engaged her for a radio series. Winters have been all work but in the summers she takes time off for fishing, becomes so absorbed in surfcasting that her husband has to remind her that her business is singing...
This season will do much to prove Helen Jepson's worth. When she finished in Chicago last week, she clapped on a man's fedora (because it was "comfortable"), flew on to San Francisco to sing in Martha and La Boheme. The Metropolitan intends to boost her again this winter. There will be no more Pasha's Garden. Handsome Helen Jepson will have a chance presumably in Martha, La Boheme, Faust, Pagliacci, Tales of Hoffmann...