Word: metropolitanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These are the plays which, in the light of metropolitan criticism, seem most important...
...Showdown," now on view at the Metropolitan, is obviously modelled on the first Bancroft-Brent opus. Unfortunately it doesn't quite come off: it is an entertaining film and in places a very good film, but it suffers by comparison. Bancroft looks extremely roguish and in spite of the fact that he is cast as a Diamond in the Rough he manages to leave the impression of good clean villainy. Miss Brent, playing a girl reeking with refinement for the first part of the picture, redeems herself by going slightly but uncontrollably native in the latter half. Which brings...
...That four U. S. premieres will be given next season at the Metropolitan Opera House: Richard Strauss' Aegyptische Helena (The Egyptian Helen) the title role to be sung by Maria Jeritza for whom it was written, who also will sing it at the Vienna premiere on June 11, the birthday of the composer; Krenek's Jonny Spielt Auf (Johnny Strikes Up) with a black-faced comedian for the leading character; Respighi's Campana Sommersa (The Sunken Bell) and Pizzetti's Fra Gherardo. . . . That the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Directors have abandoned the three-million-dollar...
...Manhattan they had it that Marion Nevada Talley would not receive a renewal of her contract with the Metropolitan Opera Company, that if she sang there at all it would be as "guest" and only for two or three performances, that the name Talley made two seasons ago by an uncritical press would no longer be a big money-maker in Manhattan. The Talleys answered back-to the effect that quite the contrary was true. Signer Gatti-Casazza, master of the Metropolitan, seized another opportunity to remain silent...
...Francisco tongues wagged when word went out that Maria Jeritza would arrive next September with the Salome of Richard Strauss, dance there for the first time in the U. S. her version of the Seven Veils. The echo spread as far as Manhattan. Perhaps the Metropolitan would relent now, let Salome into her own repertoire. She is, according to Jeritza, not a bad girl, just a little wild. But the Metropolitan board, it seems, refuses to be convinced, stays now as it has been for the past 20 years, firmly anti-Salometic...