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Fiddles & horns, conductors & opera stars last week entered the competition between General Motors and Henry Ford. Their start was simultaneous-Sunday 8 p. m. E. S. T. The Detroit Symphony fought for Ford, with Conductor Victor Kolar, yellow-haired Maria Jeritza. 24 choristers. G. M. assembled its own orchestra, hired spectacular Leopold Stokowski to wave his pale hands over it and Tenor Richard Crooks to sing. Soloists will vary in the expensive radio bout. G. M. has a starry list of conductors. Ford will stick to Victor Kolar, Ossip Gabrilowitsch's hard-working associate, who conducted at A Century...
After having had its name changed innumerable times the new Friml operetta has been chirstened "Annina" and the first performance will be given tomorrow night at the Shubert. At the head of a pretentious cast is the Viennese prima donna, Mme. Jeritza, famous for her voice and blonde hair. The story holds true to the tradition of light opera both in having its setting in the lazy and carefree Vienna of Francis Joseph, and in the Cinderella motiff which is the basis of the plot. With the singing of Jeritza, the undoubted musical ability of Mr. Friml, and the elaborate...
...Maria Jeritza failed her audience not for lack of her fee. but because she suffered a severe cold...
...Paul Longone, a dapper little Italian, was engaged as impresario. He was handed $79,000 and told it was all he could have to pay for his artists. The talent that Impresario Longone got for the money bears evidence to the passing of fantastic fees. Soprano Maria Jeritza, who opened many a Metropolitan season, was to sing the first night in Tosca. Mario Chamlee, John Charles Thomas and Grace Moore were listed for later on. Edith Mason and Rosa Raisa, two of Insull's singers, were back New Year's Eve Marion Talley will sing in Rigoletto...
...thoroughly as did The Captive. A sequel to Of Thee I Sing, by the same authors and with the same cast, will appear soon, to be called Let 'Em Eat Cake. Frederick Lonsdale's new play, Foreigners, will be given a production by Arch Selwyn. Maria Jeritza, a rich musical comedy personality, will be seen in the operetta Jerry. Dwight Wiman and Lawrence Langner are reviving Strauss's Die Fledermaus with Peggy Wood and Helen Ford singing the leads. George S. Kaufman, that perennial collaborator, and Alexander Woollcott have written a mystery play for Sam Harris. Philip...