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There was not one première for critics to praise or deplore. No operas were produced unless all signs pointed to a sure box-office sale...
...fish heads and roosters' combs served with special sauces, toured Europe with her own revue, walked the boulevards of Budapest with two swans on a leash. In Manhattan last week she attended the elaborate party which Publisher Conde Nast gave for Composer George Gershwin after the première of Porgy and Bess. Next night she went home to St. Louis to see her mother who used to be a washwoman...
...Company announced a five-week season to begin in November in the Civic Opera House. Top price: $3. President Hackett said negotiations had been opened with Bori, Lehmann, Pons, Maria Jeritza, Claudia Muzio, Rosa Raisa, Tito Schipa, Ezio Pinza, John Charles Thomas. The repertory will include the U. S. première of Respighi's La Fiamma, Puccini's La Rondine, Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier...
...This summer's repertory: Teresina, Rio Rita, Madame Sherry, The Chocolate Soldier, Good News, The Vagabond King, Sunny, The Beloved Rogue, The Cat and the Fiddle, The Desert Song, Roberta, Lady in the Window, a world première by Sigmund Romberg...
...than money, first smelled greasepaint as a comedian with the Princeton Triangle Club a few years ago. Since then he has been doing bit parts and managerial work on Broadway. To See Ourselves is the first show he has produced and directed. It is also the U. S. theatrical premiére of Author E. M. Delafield (Elizabeth M. Dashwood), a capable, Grade B English literary lady (Diary of a Provincial Lady, The Provincial Lady in America), Both débuts scored tranquil, unostentatious successes...