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...went off to Milan to study. Two years later he was on the Covent Garden stage himself, singing Cavalleria Rusticana. And in another two years he was a hit at Oscar Hammerstein's Manhattan Opera House. Critics still had reservations: they referred to him as "the best endowed lyric tenor of his time." Ah, but singing Kathleen Mavourneen or Irish Eyes when Al Smith or Jimmy Walker or any other good Irishman was about, he'd steal their hearts away...
...first act, though long, was enjoyable, highlighted by Miss MacWatters' capable singing of the "Laughing Waltz," a difficult but novel arrangement of the Die Fledermaus motif. A lyric, "Who Knows," was the only outstanding original song and is destined most likely to fall into the clutches of the radio. The second act, getting off to a boring start and failing to attain the standards set by the first, featured ballet routines well danced by Harold Lang and Babs Heath. In a stirring finale Mr. Rigaud gave a ridiculous performance of Strauss conducting a 1000 piece orchestra, a chorus...
Pietro Mascagni had one flash of genius. He was 26, a penniless ex-conductor of a fourth-rate itinerant Italian opera company, when he heard of a prize contest for a new one-act opera. In eight feverish days and nights he wrote Cavalleria Rusticana, a fast-moving, lyric tale of love and murder in a Sicilian square at Eastertide. It won the prize, got its composer 40 curtain calls at its first performance in May 1890, and subsequently the Order of the Crown of Italy. In Manhattan, Oscar Hammerstein produced Cavalleria in English, and the Metropolitan Opera...
Died. Fiske O'Hara, 67, oldtime lyric tenor (Sunbeams of My Heart) who cashed in on the Irish-ballad boom begun by Chauncey Olcott, had a long stage career (Robin Hood) and a briefer Hollywood fling (Change of Heart); after long illness; in Hollywood...
...library. "Somehow ' or other," he once said, "I have been able to get to the heart of common people and rob them of their stories." Professor Dobie's many books on S. Southwest (Coronado's Chil dren, The Longhorns - TIME, March 17, 1941) glow with the lyric magic of the region's folk tales. His mellow, witty impressions of England, gathered in a year (1943-44) as professor of American history at Cambridge, are as vividly colored: he met and "robbed" many an English man in college commons, in pubs, manor houses, railway carriages, on country...