Word: rigolettos
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Seven Philadelphia harpists played one night, dressed angelwise in flowing georgette robes with snoods around their heads. The Twin City Opera Company gave Rigoletto. University students gave Madame Butterfly. John Erskine, Harold Bauer, Rudolph Ganz, Ernest Hutcheson and Henri Deering played the piano. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett and Soprano Florence Macbeth (from Mankato, Minn.) sang. Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge sponsored chamber music by the Gordon String Quartet. Twenty-five amateur choruses performed and an orchestra came from San Antonio, Tex., the players all in their early teens. Delegates who took a few hours off to buy presents to take home heard...
...belle (Magda Schneider) in whom the singer has taken an interest. The situation is untangled when she demands a serenade. When police try to arrest the swindler they naturally get the wrong man. Then comes the anticipated scene in which, to establish his identity, Enrico Ferraro sings arias from Rigoletto at police headquarters...
Simone Boccanegra has powerful, cumulative moments but it lacks the tunes which have made Rigoletto and Trovatore hurdy-gurdy matter. The plot is a complicated brew of political intrigue, kidnapping and poisoning which few in last week's audience attempted to define. Tibbett absorbed the attention. He sang magnificently, gave great dignity and force to the corsair who rose to be Doge in Genoa, finally died by the hand of his hunchbacked henchman. In one scene where he stopped a brawl and set a curse on the cringing hunchback, he was impressive enough to suggest the Boris Godounov...
...dumpy, henna-haired old lady standing perched on a platform, her immense bosom shining with sequins as the Old Lady hesitated, looked at the words she had written on a paper before her, began a little gingerly to sing the first staccato notes of the Caro Nome from Rigoletto...
Louder than any tenor in Rigoletto, Per fumer François Coty complained last week of the fickleness of women. Women had smiled upon his perfume business, built up his fortune until it reached nearly $35,000,000 in the lush days of 1929, allowed him to buy newspapers, attempt to become Senator from Corsica...