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...singers. No other opera house of comparable artistic standards boasts such svelte and glamorous ladies as Czech Soprano Jarmila Novotna, Brazilian Soprano Bidu Sayao, U. S. Sopranos Helen Jepson, Grace Moore, Hilda Burke, Rose Bampton and Eleanor Steber (a West Virginia debutante of this month), U. S. Contraltos Risë Stevens and Gladys Swarthout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: TRILLER IN UNIFORM | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

Following nights, the Met noodled through a routine Walküre, a passable Madame Butterfly. Then it presented Samson and Delilah, with its first U. S.GALLERY-GOERS AT THE MET Also present: orchids and diamonds, born temptress in 22 years: slim, dark Risë (rhymes with Pisa) Stevens, 27, of The Bronx. Contralto Stevens proved a notable addition to the Met's strippers (who had heretofore included Sopranos Helen Jepson and Lily Pons) and in the seduction scene gave Samson (barrel-shaped Tenor René Maison) quite a going-over. But critics doubted that the Stevens pleasing midriff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: They Opened the Opera | 12/16/1940 | See Source »

Marriage Revealed. Risë (rhymes with Mona Lisa) Stevens, 25, pretty new Metropolitan Opera contralto; and Walter Szurowy, 28, Hungarian stage & screen actor; three months ago; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 3, 1939 | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

...classmates glowing descriptions of Philip Morris cigarets. Football players found their prowess rewarded with "flat fifties." Any man who was elected to a class office or chosen as a Rhodes Scholar was presented with "flat fifties." College sports editors were asked to run score-predicting contests with Philip Mor- ris cigarets as the prize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Campus Publicity | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

...Phalsburg) which he said "Papa" Wendel had given him in 1901 in Dundee. On the flyleaf was written a record of the marriage and birth, signed by John G. Wendel. On the back flyleaf was a will bequeathing all John Wendel's property to his son, Thomas Patrick Mor ris Wendel. Also Morris submitted a pair of huge shoes with inch-thick gum soles which he said "Papa" Wendel once wore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 8, 1932 | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

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