Word: pit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cellist playing obscurely in the Metropolitan pit, Victor Herbert began his U. S. career. He had left Ireland in his youth, studied in Germany, taken a job with the Stuttgart Opera when in 1886 Walter Damrosch visited there, offered a Metropolitan contract to Therese Forster, a comely young singer who was to become Mrs. Victor Herbert. Damrosch offered Herbert $60 per week for the sake of signing up the singer he wanted. Mrs. Herbert's heyday was brief. She retired to bear children, grew plumper & plumper, never quite mastered the English language...
...longer stand the strain of seeing his car behind the leaders, jumped in to drive himself. He finished third. With less than 100 miles to go, Meyer had a five-lap lead. Adapting his pace to that of his nearest rivals, whose progress was signalled to him by his pit crew, Meyer held his speed till five miles from the end, then reduced it to 98 m.p.h. to save gas. With one pint of gas left in his tank, he finished one lap ahead of Ted Horn of Los Angeles...
...long-neglected masterpiece. Gluck's Orjeo et Eurydice, missing from the Metropolitan repertoire since 1914, had been promised as one of the highlights of the Popular Spring Season (TIME, May 25). The production was to be in a way experimental, with the singers placed in the orchestra pit while dancers from the American Ballet mimed their roles on the stage. Even among purists such a prospect aroused little concern. A similar device had worked successfully with Rimsky-Korsakov's Cog d'Or, seemed ill-suited to the 18th Cen-tury Gluck, whom Isadora Duncan consistently referred...
...performers in the pit were no better than average. The Orpheus was Contralto Anna Kaskas from Bridgeport, Conn.; the Amor, Maxine Stellman from Brattleboro, Vt.; the Eurydice, plump Jeanne Pengelly, a native of Toronto, whose part was danced by pretty, half-clad Daphne Vane. Conductor Richard Hageman, rejoining the Metropolitan after an absence of 14 years, did his best by the stately, sculptured score. But only those, who were smart enough to close their eyes could reap its full benefit...
...well is really only a matter of form and of curiosity, because when the new pump pumps water it will pump city water. A pipe-ditch stretching from the pit is already flirting with a fire-hydrant nearby...