Word: lilli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Both the pictures at the Paramount and Fenway this week take place in the North Woods, the big outdoors, but this does not freshen them greatly. "Fifty Roads to Town", with Don Ameche and Ann Sothern, and "Silent Barriers", featuring Richard Arlen and Lilli Palmer, are the pictures; one is sophisticated adventure, the other raw meat. The first is strongly under the influence of "It Happened One Night", which was so good picture that its baleful shadow is still hanging over Hollywood...
Other shifts: Jean de Reszke & Lauritz Melchior, from baritone to tenor. Dramatic Soprano Lilli Lehmann, like Galli-Curci, began as a coloratura...
...formal concert, earned enough to go to Manhattan where the late Frederick Bristol gave her lessons in return for which she played the accompaniments for all his other pupils. As a soloist at St. Patrick's Cathedral she made enough to go to Europe, where she studied with Lilli Lehmann. She was determined to be a dramatic soprano but when her funds were exhausted she heard of a contralto vacancy at the Cologne Opera, applied for the job, rose rapidly thereafter...
Unable to stand on both feet, Marian Anderson managed to exhibit one of the richest contralto voices that has been heard in the U. S. for many a year. One Viennese critic described her as "a black Lilli Lehmann." That she is not. But she is an exciting, sure-voiced singer who would make any race proud. Her Handel songs instantly revealed a breadth and nobility of style. Her Schubert Ave Maria was not something interpolated to catch popular fancy; it was fervent, even as an organ tone, deeply impressive. Even more moving...
...fairness to Miss Ponselle, disgruntled critics would have done well to point to the fact that there have been few successful Carmens. The redoubtable Lilli Lehmann sang the role like a Brünnhilde. Adelina Patti was completely unsuited to it. Most effective impersonation was by fiery Emma Calvé, though purists fussed at her because she took liberties with the music. Farrar's popular Carmen lacked the finesse of many of her other roles. Mary Garden was not at her best in the part. Maria Jeritza failed to stand the test. Those who disliked Ponselle's performance...