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Miss Colbert performs admirably, and emulates her role of the suffering Sally Trent as a torch singer under the assumed name of Mimi Benton, with a soothing croon which is good enough for any night club. Her wispy overtones are accompanied by the sweet harmony of Abe Lyman's band, and her "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Love," has more direct bearing on the plot than theme songs in most movies we have seen recently...
...fiancee (Miss Sydney Fox, as well as another medical student and his beloved. Leaving this old machinator of a Mirakle for the disarming young people, we follow Pierre and his friends in scenes of Bohemian gayety that owe practically everything to DuMaurier and Puccini's opera. Here are Mimi and Musetta, making merry in studio bedrooms and cavorting in the park on holidays. Except for a suspicion that Musetta is a child of Keokuk and not of Paris, it is all rather touching. They should really play the Musetta Waltz from "Boheme...
People everywhere have heard Nellie Melba sing "Home Sweet Home," "Comin' Thro' the Rye," Tosti's "Goodbye." Opera crowds have seen her as Mimi in La Bohème, Violetta in La Traviata, Marguerite in Faust, Gilda in Rigoletto, Lucia, Juliette. The pure and springlike quality of her voice established her as Patti's greatest successor. It lasted her well through middle age because she used it so intelligently, won her triumphs for 40 years. Melba's life was as glamorous as the prima donna of fiction. She made her American debut at the Metropolitan in 1893 five days after famed...
...dared test it. Again she went to Italy, cared for the wounded in War hospitals. It was in 1919 that she returned to the Metropolitan, a greater artist than before. Since then she has had a succession of successes as Fiora in L'Amore, Violetta in Traviata, Mimi in Bohème, Nedda in Pagliacci, Juliette, Manon, Mélisande. She is devout and, like most opera singers, superstitious. She has a wire-haired terrier, "Rowdy," whom she adores. She makes up when she goes to bed with the same care that she does for the stage. She plays...
...BOHEME, made in Italy by Italian singers, the Scala Chorus and the Milan Symphony conducted by Lorenzo Molajoli (Columbia, $26)-One of the most satisfying of opera releases. Soprano Rosetta Pampanini (Mimi) and Tenor Luigi Marini (Rodolfo) sing in the approved Italian manner. The recording is excellent...