Word: opera
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...importance in Dr. Goebbels' mind of the "educative campaign" he was starting last week caused him to summon 2,000 of his picked Nazi stooge-orators to meet him in the Kroll Opera House...
Last week as the No. 1 opera house of the U. S., Manhattan's Metropolitan, launched its 54th season, General Manager Edward Johnson and his associates found opera's financial and artistic graphs like those of the stockmarket. After a Depression, they appeared to be starting a slow, but not uniform long term rise. The statistics...
...down-to-earth plot; and it has the skillful directing which makes for smooth, leisurely exposition. More important than all this, however, it has that great, single asset of any picture: Deanna Durbin's voice. Better than ever before, especially in the higher ranges, it renders both opera and "A Bicycle Built For Two" with equally charming, careless abandon. Melvyn Douglas, as the unwitting object of Deanna's "eternal" devotion, and Jackie Cooper, as the patient, long-suffering true love, are also good in their less important roles...
Tristan und Isolde (Fri. 11:45 p. m. NBC-Blue). Act III of Richard Wagner's opera of love and death from the Chicago City Opera with Tenor Paul Althouse, Soprano Kirsten Flagstad in the title roles...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 1:55 p. m. NBC-Red) opens its eighth successive radio season with its revival of Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. Contralto Kerstin Thorborg, Soprano Irene Jessner in the title roles...