Word: lyrical
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There is one juvenile in particular who would be eagerly sought after were he to decide on a stage career because of his poise and fine singing voice of delightful lyric quality...
...lyric tenor voice of Roland Hayes, Negro singer, has "brought down" many a house. Now, with concert box office proceeds, the same voice is to raise some houses -schoolhouses. Near Calhoun, Ga., where Roland Hayes was born, he has bought 600 acres and will build an institution as a memorial to his mother, to whom he ascribes all his success. The name: "Angelmo" (contraction of "Angel mother"). The nature: "a place where inspiration and talent and ambition of any kind among my own people, (and yours, too, if any of them choose to come; the doors will never be closed...
...changed attitude of the others, back to their normal indulgence towards a dowdy little bitch, cast a dream-like veil over the whole episode. Not until May, when her kennel rolled with black puppy-shapes, was she sure that she had really heard the Dark Gentleman's lyric blandishments. Author Stern, social chronicler, (The Matriarch, A Deputy Was King, Thunderstorm), now deserves a niche no whit below Christopher Morley's (Where the Blue Begins), from dog-lovers. If he could read it, Toes would ejaculate: "Great Spratt! I say, you chaps, that is a book! My copy...
...buggy-couples wooed each other with "Connaistu le Pays?" sweet lyric by Ambroise Thomas. As old Dobbin ambled along the moon-patched road He would lean his head against her leg-of-mutton sleeve, and She would trill: "Knowest thou the Land?" So thorough a wooing song did this aria from Mignon become that the opera itself became boresome. People refused to go hear...
Last week, after almost 20 years, the Metropolitan produced Mignon again. The lyric is based, of course, on Goethe's sentimental play, Wilhelm Meister. Mignon, nobleman's daughter, had long been held captive by gypsies. But she dimly remembers her home. This memory grows intense after she meets dazed Lothario, who really is her father, gone daft. Sportive Wilhelm Meister she grows to love, and flirting Philene she hates. Marion Talley, adequate as Philene, showed progress as an operatic actress. Lucrezia Bori, who sang Mignon last week kept merry an audience of 4,000, many of whom...