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...Maria Jeritza who impressed Chicago audiences this winter but who is no longer wanted by the Metropolitan...
Music Hath Charms (score by Rudolf Friml; Libretto by Rowland Leigh, George Rosener, John Shubert; Shuberts, producers). In operatic circles, Maria Jeritza has always been as famed for her business acumen as for her wit and charm. She had the good sense to duck out of Music Hath Charms before that mossy opus reached Manhattan...
...years which have passed since he wrote High Jinks. "Sweet Fool" is a ballad worthy of place among modern Schmalzmusik. But the libretto with its creaky structure belongs to the bygone era of celluloid collars and beehive police helmets. In surrendering her role to Natalie Hall, Mme Jeritza escaped being a Venetian noblewoman of 1934 who thinks better of spurning a commoner when, in a flashback, she impersonates her own fisher maiden ancestor in 1770 wooing and winning the Duke of Orsano. She also escaped having the following appeal addressed to her: "Ah, Marchesa, wouldn't it be divine...
...determined to be a singer and Father Turkel was equally determined that she should never change her name. Anna made sure-fire copy because she was once a sweetmeat seller at the Metropolitan Opera House where she listened constantly to such singers as Lucrezia Bori, Rosa Ponselle, Maria Jeritza. In Europe she did well by the name of Turkel. But Chicago last week found her cold and immature...
...have recalled many historic scenes: plump little Marcella Sembrich making her operatic farewell; Enrico Caruso singing his last, as the bearded Jew in Halévy's La Juive; Geraldine Farrar appearing in Die Königskinder with a flock of real, live geese (TIME, Nov. 12); Maria Jeritza giving her first breath-taking Tosca; Marion Talley making her début with mounted police handling the sidewalk crowds outside the dingy opera house...