Word: metropolitanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Martinelli was the popular tenor who loved her; because Ezio Pinza was the blind king and believed it; because, by reason of its beauty and its simplicity, L'Amore del Tre Re pleases the tutored and untutored, there was small fault found anywhere with the opening performance at the Metropolitan Opera House, last week...
Four operas will have U. S. premieres this year at the Metropolitan. They are: Richard Strauss' Die Aegyptische Helena to be given Nov. 6 with Maria Jeritza as Helen; Ottorino Respighi's La Campana Sommersa to be given late in November, with Elizabeth Rethberg and Giovanni Martinelli; Ernst Krenek's Jonny Spielt Auf in January; Hdebrando Pizzetti's Fra Gherardo in March. Three operas return to the repertoire: Massenet's Manon in December with Lucrezia Bori and Beniamino Gigli; Verdi's Ernani with Rosa Ponselle and Weber's Der Freischiilz later...
...England. General Electric last week apparently accepted a subordinate place in England's electrical industry. Its British Thomson-Houston Co. sold a majority of its common shares to the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. which controls other electrical concerns. But British Thomson-Houston's chairman, H. C. Levis, is to be Metropolitan-Vickers' chairman. Hence the deal was a consolidation of similar interests, not a G. E. sell...
...FINEST AMERICAN GRAND OPERA RECORDING ISSUED THIS YEAR is Lawrence Tibbetts assisted by the Metropolitan Opera Chorus singing 'Caesar, Great Wert Thou" and "Nay, Maccus, Lay Him Down" from KING'S HENCHMAN...
...seizes an old and whining clerk named John Jones, gives him ticker tape and a Park Avenue apartment. It soon becomes apparent that John Jones is not happy-one doubts that he could be happy under any conditions. His children (with one exception) go to various types of metropolitan hell. Meanwhile, Author Pollock denounces night clubs, politicians, newspaper owners, Algonquinesque writers, Wall Street, society. It is all very bitter; but there is action, noise and color, settings by Robert Edmond Jones, staccato staging by Richard Boleslavsky. These first two acts are the outstanding curiosity of the current Manhattan season...