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...alternative to Cheesecake was its cousin Celebrity. At the Metropolitan Opera, Soprano Lily Pons, Author Fannie Hurst and Tenor Lauritz Melchior each bought $5,000 worth, urged operagoers to do the same (see cut). For the New York premiere of the movie Yankee Doodle Dandy first-nighters subscribed $5,450,000 in bonds. Two months later, the Hollywood premiere boosted this...
Speaking of Wagner, Columbia has signed Melchior up, and just released his first recorded attempt at "Otello." The album comprises the monologue and death scene, along with Rienzi's prayer, and the song from the second act of "Tristan" beginning "O Koenig." These records show that he is the only tenor in circulation who could do this tremendous role anything like full justice. His Italian isn't all it might be, and his style is a little heavy in spots, but the necessary power and brilliance are there. The best of this new album of his is, of course...
Next week that stirring scene and many another in the lives of the Muhlenberg (family-greatest in the history of U.S. Lutheranism-will be re-enacted at Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pa. The occasion: the 200th anniversary of the arrival in the U.S. of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg (1711-1787), sire of Washington's general and ancestor of many another famed parson, statesman and educator. He was the real founder and patriarch of the Lutheran Church in the U.S., was called Gachs-wunga-roracks by his Indian friends because "his words went through the hearts of men like a saw through...
What the Polski company does to the Gestapo is first-rate entertainment- thanks to a score of good performances by the cast, fresh dialogue and plot (authored by Lubitsch and Melchior Lengyel) and the sure, saucy, suspenseful Lubitsch direction. Miss Lombard's natural, likable, vibrant performance is up to her standard. Mr. Benny, who plays his role straight, doesn't need his prop stogies to be funny...
...singers now cover the same circuit every year-the San Francisco opera in October, the Chicago opera in November, Manhattan's Metropolitan from then until March. San Francisco pays the most: $1,500 and up an evening to stars like Soprano Lily Pons, Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, Tenor Lauritz Melchior. And San Francisco opera gets its money's worth. Productions, rehearsed aplenty, are well staged, freshly lighted, altogether less dusty than the Met's. The San Francisco Symphony plays with gusto...