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...Charm of La Boheme (Intergloria Film) sets characters very like Puccini's Mimi and Rodolfo on a tragic course in a modern cinema plot, contrives to fit the woeful wind-up into La Boheme's familiar last act. With vigorous operatic Tenor Jan Kiepura and his cinema-songstress wife, Marta Eggerth, singing the opera's chief arias, the music charms, the film's scheme proves a workable one for bringing grand opera to the screen...
...golden age" which all operagoers ever 50 recall with sighs, the famous Rodolfos of Puccini's La Boheme (Bonci, Caruso, Gigli) had powerful voices and rotund figures. Today's cinema-bred audiences demand smaller bellies, and get, as a rule, weaker diaphragms. Old-time opera fans do not mind the drop in avoirdupois, but they sniff contemptuously at the comparatively microphonic murmuring that goes with...
...Viscount Hidemaro Konoye, W. K. conductor here, has completed a modern and Japanized version of Puccini's Madame Butterfly which has been submitted to Paramount for possible production. . . . Konoye leaves for America July 21 and if agreeable, production will start soon after his arrival...
...Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Co. He took a nonsinging role in Roberta for two years, made his baritone debut last summer singing Gilbert & Sullivan in St. Louis and Central City, Colo. To replace Baritone Julius Huehn, he went to Chicago fortnight ago to sing star parts in Puccini's Gianni Schicchi and Gruenberg's Jack & the Beanstalk, was engaged to repeat the performance. The latter role requires a shrill falsetto. Undaunted, Baritone Middleton boasted: "I have a freak voice, a peach of a falsetto. I'd make a good yodler...
Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg, from "Tannhauser"Wagner Overture, "Le Roi I'a dit" Delibes *Minuet from String Quintet Boccherini *Fantasia, "Madam Butterfly" Puccini Suite, "The Two Pigeons" (after La Fontaine) Messager Entrance of the Gypsies--Scene and Dance of the Two Pigeous-Divertissement ungarian Dance *Ave Maria Schubert-Wilhelmi *Polovetzkian Dances from "Prince Igor" Borodin *Selection, "Mile, Modiate" Herbert *"Danube Waves," Waltzes Ivanoviel *"We Saw the Sea," from "Follow the Fleet" Berlin Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square