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...Another U. S. premiere was to be Cimarosa's more-than-a-century-old Secret Marriage. Both operas are to be sung in English. Manager Johnson also plans revivals of such operas as Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann, Wagner's Flying Dutchman, Saint-Saens's Samson et Dalila, Smetana's Bartered Bride (held over from last spring), Rimsky-Korsakov's Le Coq d'Or (for which Lily Pons spent this summer learning how to dance & kick), Mozart's Don Giovanni, Bellini's Norma...
Guthrie scraped together an 82-piece orchestra, and with a single rehearsal led it irreproachably through the opera, took a total of 40 bows by the final curtain. Well-pleased, Impresario Frank promised that Guthrie will lead an opera every month, the next to be Samson & Delilah. Determined Guthrie: "If I have anything to say about it, it will be sung in English. All American opera should be sung in English. What good are words if people can't understand them...
Friday Evening, May 22 Roxbry Latin School Night French Military MarchSaint-Saens *Academic Festival Overture Brahms *"Traumerel" Schumano Fantasia, "Samson and Dellish" Saint-Saens Ballet Suite Rameau-Motti *Valse Triste Sibellus *Bolero Ravel *Selection, "Roberts" Kern *"Emperor" Waltzes Strausa *"Thunder and Lightning," Polka Strauss...
Thus the atmosphere was tense and dramatic last week when the General Assembly of the Bank of France met with its 15 regents to hear the annual report of Governor Jean Samson Tannery. The Governor was appointed just 13 months ago by then Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin, who instructed him to "loosen up credit" in France and resort to various pump-priming devices. Into the Bank of France swept Jean Samson Tannery, ordered removed the heavy double cur tains favored by his gloom-loving predecessors and installed cheerful, high-power indirect lighting. But that was about all. The regents...
...only if prepared to purchase it in bars worth about $14,200 each. Before the Chamber of Deputies last week went the new Cabinet of millionaire Radical Socialist Premier Albert Sarraut. His Foreign Minister is that same moose-tall, fair-haired Pierre Etienne Flandin who as Premier appointed Jean Samson Tannery to be Governor of the Bank of France. Communists and Socialists, elated at the formation of a Left Centre Cabinet in succession to the Centre Cabinet of millionaire ex-Premier Pierre Laval, voiced their satisfaction through millionaire Socialist Leader Leon Blum. Said he: "In our eyes the Cabinet...