Word: metropolitanism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Even in Ernst Krenek's Jonny Spielt Auf, presented last year at the Metropolitan Opera House (TIME, Jan. 28) and before that in many a European capital, there was much discussion because Hero Jonny is supposed to be a black-face comedian. The Metropolitan authorities worried about letting Basso Michael Bohnen wear full, realistic black-face makeup, thought perhaps his neck should show white to reassure prejudiced observers. At the dress rehearsal the neck was white. It looked so absurd that at the performance it was blackened like the face...
...Metropolitan--Colleen Moore in "Footlights and Fools". Morton Downey in person...
Obstreperous journalists, undergraduate and metropolitan, might well undergo a certain amount of chest expansion at the news that one of their chance shots at improving the existent system of college athletics, has taken effect. Massachusetts Agricultural College is the proving ground: the goat is basketball, or possibly the captain of that sport, who is to give the idea of student coaching a workout this season. If the basketball teams from the Amherst college had been engaged in rolling up records for consecutive losses, this decision might be condoned as a last desperate measure before the oblivion of a dropped sport...
Last week, at the Metropolitan's second performance, inevitably Die Meistersinger, Conductor Rosenstock made his debut. His appearance bore no resemblance to the proud, satanic figure of Bodanzky. Like a precocious, shy, near-sighted schoolboy he came out from under the stage, wangled his way almost apologetically through the string-players, bowed to a cordial hand-clapping. Out went the lights. He chose a baton from the rack and began a careful, orthodox Vorspiel. Care alone, however, could not make it clean, clear-cut. Sometimes it raced confusedly, as did parts of the opera which followed. Occasionally it groped...
Three singers made debuts during the Metropolitan's first week. Mezzo-soprano Eleanor La Mance of Jacksonville, Fla., a thin-legged, hollow-voiced girl, was "a musician" in the opening Manon Lescaut, sang her one aria nervously. Alfredo Gandolfi, who might have been any pot-bellied Italian tenor, was "a sergeant...