Word: jeritzas
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...Peasant Overture) wrote them for Boccaccio, a cluttered comic piece based on the Italian storyteller's love for Fiammetta, bastard daughter of the Duke of Tuscany. But the Metropolitan audience was unusually enthusiastic, broke its rule, stayed almost to a dowager until the final curtain. Soprano Maria Jeritza (Boccaccio) was the magnet for most. She was radiantly fair, displayed calves beyond the dreams of most opera singers. One waltz, compiled by Conductor Artur Bodanzky from Suppe themes, she sang with such lilt that it stopped the show, set many to wishing that she would...
...applause followed him when he went ashore to dinner with Dr. Paul Schwarz, the German consul; when he had luncheon with Adolph Simon Ochs, publisher of the New York Times; when he spoke on Zionism over the radio, when he went to the Metropolitan Opera House to hear Maria Jeritza sing Carmen; when he was escorted to City Hall by Columbia University's President Nicholas Murray Butler to shake hands with wisecracking little Mayor Walker...
...Maria Jeritza, buxom blonde Metropolitan Opera singer, instituted legal proceedings against Dr. Muller Guttenbrunn at Vienna because she thought that his book Riff Raff, which deals with a family continually embroiled in lawsuits, defamed her. When she first heard the book was being written she had the Viennese censor scrutinize it; when it was published she obtained legal authority for its confiscation. Her reason for believing the book was detrimental to her: the author is a brother-in-law of a maid whom she dismissed from her home in Vienna...
...Daland, capably acted the jovial sailor but disappointed with singing which, according to persons who had heard him in Europe, was below his standard. Hans Clemens, newcomer from Berlin, sang the minor role of a steersman and disproved the theory that there are no good German tenors. Soprano Maria Jeritza apparently believed in the hallucinations of Senta, lifted high the ghoulish scene of her meeting with the Dutchman, her promise to redeem...
Boheme with winsome Queena Mario and pompous little Gigli, Salome, Traviata, Cavalleria, Hansel und Gretel, Manon, Tannhduser, Mignon, Girl of the Golden West, Lucia ? the Los Angeles repertoire and reactions were much the same as in San Francisco. Boxofficially Soprano Maria Jeritza was greatest at traction. Gigli got the galleries. Critics were most eager to hear Clare Clairbert, new Belgian coloratura...