Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Walküre's second act might have ended disastrously if it had not been for the courage of Contralto Karin Branzell. She was Fricka, the angry goddess who has a long scene with the erring Wotan. Last week she had gallstones. Pain, not expert acting, made her sing most of her music with clenched fists. Finally she had to sit down on a stage rock but she finished her scene, majestically left the stage, fainted...
...GERMAN SING-SONG: Lowell Roof, located in a delightful spot overlooking Mt. Auburn Street and the bright lights of Manter Hall. Gets rather raucous as the night waxes on. Good place to take a Radcliffe Girl, better than the Germanic Museum. If you can play a carrillon they will supply...
...magnificent sets: Fifth Avenue from a bustop, a store window, a huge smear of prairie with phantom cowboys and dogies.* It has Fanny Brice and little, shrugging Willie Howard with his brother Eugene, comedians of, by and for Broadway. It has beauteous Jane Froman and commanding Everett Marshall to sing. It has a pair of Astaire-like dancers in Vilma and Buddy Ebsen. It has an incredible acrobatic child named June Preisser. It has good songs: "Suddenly," "Moon About Town," "I Like the Likes of You" and "To the Beat of the Heart." It has flocks of pretty, nimble girls...
...beautiful legs and a smooth, ingratiating voice critics found him short of Metropolitan standards. He was often flat. His loudly-touted top notes were strained. It was the oldtimer who had the week's warmest reception. Soprano Claudia Muzio, who left the Met twelve years ago to sing in Chicago, returned, gave a stirring performance in La Traviata...
Those who like to sing, dance, and see pictures at the Metropolitan Theatre are offered this week Will Rogers in "Mr. Skitch," and the opera singer Mary McCormic in a group of more or less familiar selections. This, of course, is in addition to the usual musical gymnastics of Mr. Fabien Sevitzky and an assorted stage show...