Word: singeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Warden Lawes has been the fatherly director of Sing Sing Prison for 17 years. In all these years the Warden has kept not only a steady hand and an open heart, but a warm and sympathetic literary point of view which produced in 1932 a non-fiction best-seller called Twenty Thousand Years in Sing Sing. Not until he collaborated on Chalked Out, however, had Warden Lawes undertaken to rattle the cup dramatically on his 2,500 punks, wolves and right guys...
...matter of statistics, only two men have successfully escaped from Sing Sing since Warden Lawes has been there. He does not damage that record in Chalked Out, but neither has he enhanced his literary record with a show whose melodramatic iconoclasms will doubtless fare better in the films...
Kirsten Flagstad, who has justly proved such a sensation, will sing the role of Isolde--a part no less grueling than that of Brunhilde in the Ring which she is also to sing here in Boston. The role of Tristan is to be taken by the well known Wagnerian tenor, Lauritz Melchior. This part is without doubt one of the most thankless in all grand opera from the acting standpoint, for during the entire last act, Mr. Melchior is forced to toss feverishly on a couch in death agonies while at the same time singing a long and rather dull...
...first two recitals will be held with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the selections being sung coming from the "Faust" symphony of Liszt. The Brooklyn Academy of Music will be the scene of the first appearance Friday, and on Saturday afternoon they will sing at Carnegie Hall...
...Otto Klemperer recognized what a voice she had when he heard her at the Cologne Opera. In 1927 he took her to the newly founded Berlin Kroll Opera, starred her in nearly every premiere. Later she went to the Paris Opera and the Budapest Op era. Now Rosa Pauly sings most often in Vienna. Strauss picked her to sing his Elektra at the Coronation Operas in Lon don this spring...