Word: kiepura
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...female form does not loom as large in Wilson's column as it once did. Now he covers events like Bernarr Macfadden's stand-on-your-head religion, Cosmotari-anism. Reported Wilson: "They got mat burns at last Sunday's sermon. . . ." He interviewed Polish Tenor Jan Kiepura after the critics panned his new show, and reported it, in pure Kiepurese: "The public love oss. They dizagree with the critics. The onjost critics hurts only wahn person-his poblisher and himself!" Wilson showed a flair for punch leads: "John Steinbeck said what the hell...
...Harry Bloomfield) is a sumptuously messy musical that involves a chronological partition of Poland. Eighteenth-Century Polish Tadeusz Kosciuszko, the freedom-loving volunteer of the American Revolution, supplies the plot; 19th-Century Polish Frédéric Chopin contributes most of the music; and 20th-century Polish Jan Kiepura (The Merry Widow) leads the singing...
Born. To Jan Kiepura, 42, and Marta Eggerth, 29, cinema and stage singers lately costarred in the Manhattan revival of The Merry Widow: a first child, Jan Tadeusz (named in honor of Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Polish general of American Revolutionary War fame...
...Kiepura, star of the Manhattan revival of The Merry Widow, as a patriotic whim sings an out-of-show Polish folk song in the middle of the performance. When a visiting Polish Pestka (WAC) was moved to tears, a portly, white-haired man seated beside her spoke sympathetically: "I expect Poland to be free again." After the show he stopped the Pestka, shook her hand, urged: "Keep your chin up." Gratefully, she asked if she might know his name. "Of course. It's Hoover-Herbert Hoover...
...Merry Widow's box-office appeal, the New Opera Company departed from its past policy of using only youthful U.S. unknowns. It hired world-famed Polish Operatic Tenor Jan Kiepura for leading man, gave the part of the Widow to his wife, Marta Eggerth. Redheaded Hungarian Cinemactress Eggerth, an enticing peach sundae in liberally flounced weeds, gave Lehár fans all they could...