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When Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company picked for production its 16th piece by a U. S. composer, no one was more surprised than John Laurence Seymour, an obscure California schoolteacher who, with little hope, had submitted In the Pasha's Garden. According to one story the Seymour opera was considered at the request of Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, a fellow-Californian. According to another rumor, the Metropolitan judges drew lots when they found they had no new U. S. work which really pleased them. More likely, In the Pasha's Garden was chosen because it has only...
...gong sounded feebly, horns droned, strings quavered mistily and the curtain went up on what was supposed to be a kiosk on the Bosporus. Composer Seymour had taken his plot from Author Harrison Griswold Dwight's Stamboul Nights. A Hollywood friend named H. C. Tracy had hacked out the libretto. But, at first, words were lost while the audience gaped in bewilderment at Frederick Kiesler's setting. The kiosk resembled the turret of a battleship topped by an old-fashioned lampshade. To suggest the garden a lighting arrangement projected on the backdrop a horizontal stem and four...
...Composer Seymour had said that the orchestra described the characters' true feelings in contrast to the words they sang. Perhaps this scheme was too subtle for the literal-minded. The music was never unpleasant, but for 50 minutes it ambled along like a monotonous introduction to something which never began. Unfortunately for the libretto, the Pasha was played by Lawrence Tibbett whose diction is so clear that the audience understood every word he sang. And fortunately for John Laurence Seymour a Manhattan audience will applaud any new opera. For the occasion the delighted composer had been granted leave...
Nine years ago Seymour Weiss was a $25-a-week manager of the Hotel Roosevelt barbershop in New Orleans. He was promoted to hotel pressagent. The best publicity job he ever did was to provide Governor Huey Long with a free and luxurious suite of rooms. Governor Long made him Colonel Weiss, appointed him treasurer of the Long political machine. Soon "Colonel" Weiss was appointed NRA Hotel Code chairman for 13 Southern states. Last week he was elected president of the newly formed New Orleans Roosevelt Corp., operator of the Hotel Roosevelt and the Hotel Bienville. Twenty-four hours later...
...Charles Fuller Woodard 24 POET *Ten Eyek Lansing 169 Hugh Mason Wade 136 TREASURER *David Whitney Lewis 86 Edwin lde Brainard 76 Chester Kaufman Litman 66 Warren Sturgis 49 Robert Lincoln Cummings, Jr. 44 Donald Vincent McGranahan 40 David Hill Murray 9 CHORISTER *Francis Edgar Johnson, 3rd. 124 Malcolm Seymour 91 William Gurney Kirby 99 *Elected ORATOR *Frederick de Wolfe Bolman, Jr. 95 Victor Horsley Kramer 95 Charles Richards Chevington 58 Russell George Olsen 58 Kenneth Jerome Fezrow 35 Richard Prescott Raymon 34 ODIST *George Lee Haskins 212 Charles Friedman Hass 74 Joshna McLennan 61 IVY ORATOR *Vincent Palmer...