Word: melchior
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...trouble was, none of the old boys knew how to start an opera right. They had a rousing overture, the curtain rose, and a bunch of minor characters went into some tedious, scene-setting song. What Hollywood wanted was an overture, curtain, and zowie-a tenor aria for Lauritz Melchior...
Liszt in Technicolor. Of the many "serious" musicians to trek to Hollywood (among them Lawrence Tibbett, Lily Pons, Risë Stevens), only Jose Iturbi and Wagnerian Tenor Lauritz Melchior have made the grade, by their ability to be themselves on the screen, to get off foolish lines with M-G-M stars Jimmy Durante and Kathryn Grayson...
...Sisters from Boston (MGM) nearly knocks itself out trying to assimilate the dissimilar talents of Jimmy Durante and Lauritz Melchior. Set in the Gay Nineties, the picture allows its top-notch cast to dress up in quaint period costumes and poke fun at turn-of-the-century manners. The tortuous plot winds the two pretty sisters (June Allyson and Kathryn Grayson) through such varied backgrounds as a stiff-bosomed New England drawing room, a Bowery honkytonk, an imitation Metropolitan Opera Co. stage in full cry. In spite of its singing, dancing, frenzied movement and fancy dress, Two Sisters adds...
Allow me to protest against the atrocious bad taste evidenced by TIME in its article [Feb. 25] about Mr. Lauritz Melchior, and its enumeration of how many thousands of dollars, pounds, and kroner worth of Tristans, Götterdämmerungs, and Siegfrieds Mr. Melchior had performed during the last 20 years...
...TIME'S enumeration of Tenor Melchior's triumphs and rewards was Melchior...