Word: metropolitanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lawrence Mervil Tibbett, lean, native U. S. baritone of the Metropolitan Opera Company, was last week arrested for reckless driving in Los Angeles. Next day, still jolly, he stood outside a cafe, squirted a hose on the cafe manager's automobile and on passersby, was fined $25 for disturbing the peace...
...most disturbing features in connection with the many decadent productions that have been disported on the metropolitan stage this season . . . is the fact that they have been attended by thousands of respectable young girls, either with the sanction, or in the company of, their parents or guardians. . . . [This] indicates such a general lack of ethical, as well as thetic qualities, as makes even the most liberal minded sigh for a return of the ascetic Puritan spirit which so sternly repressed certain forms of wrongdoing. . . . When daringly salacious scenes, songs and tableaux are wildly applauded, not only by evening audiences...
Rosenstock to Metropolitan. Josef Rosenstock, 34, will succeed Artur Bodanzky as conductor for next season's German repertoire of the Metropolitan Opera. He will reach the U. S. in September, speaking little English. Since taking honors at Vienna's Academy of Music, he has held posts with the Vienna Philharmonic choir, the Berlin opera school, the Württembergische Landstheater in Stuttgart, the Wiesbaden Opera. Der Rosenkavalier with Mme. Jeritza, compatriot, whom he has never met, may introduce Herr Rosenstock to Manhattan...
...transmitting Kitchener's stencil "Carry on" to Actress Ralston after her attempted jump. Like many contemporary film people, Esther Ralston took her first part as a stage baby. She and her parents, May Howard and Henry Walter Ralston, were routed over vaudeville circuits as "The Ralston Family, Metropolitan Entertainers." She went to school in Washington and New York, was tutored during the busy seasons. When she first got in pictures she was a free lance, that is, she made pictures without a permanent contract, hired sometimes by the week and sometimes under a blanket salary for a piece...
Ponselle Company. From Old Orchard, Me., takeoff place for trans-Atlantic flights, came report of an All-Star Grand Opera to be organized by Carmela Ponselle, onetime Metropolitan contralto, sister of Soprano Rosa Ponselle. Miss Ponselle announced an opening at Manhattan's Metropolitan in the fall; a tour of the East, South, Midwest...