Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shabby old Metropolitan Opera House, a musical era reached its end in Manhattan. For 27 years Giulio Gatti-Casazza had guided the Metropolitan's affairs shrewdly and cosily. At its best his long regime stood for many a stirring performance, for the presentation of many a top-notch singer, for real opera glamour. The end was different. Though the tired old impresario was granted every honor, his spirit seemed broken when Depression left his Company impoverished and its directors resorted to a tin-cup campaign...
...stage, the Elida Ballet hits a new high in clever and well-directed routines. They can be compared, not unfavorably, to the Rockettes of New York and this weeks sets also deserve high praise. A Mexican singer, whose microphone technique reminds one of a jumping bean and a clever pair of eccentric dancers fill out the bill, which, we regret to say, is not up to the Metropolitan standard...
...Reporter Davidson next. Mme Wettergren's husband, who had earnestly added his request to hers, explained that it was an old Swedish custom for a person to be kicked before beginning any new venture. In Sweden students are commonly kicked before they enter an examination room. Actors and singers are kicked before important first nights.* The kicks on the Gripsholm last week brought luck indeed to Mme Wettergren, boosted her straight into headlines. The Post ran her picture with a front-page story. Pictures were also in the American, the News, the Herald Tribune, stories...
...worst U. S. opera ever produced at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House there appeared last winter a soprano so shapely, so vividly blonde that she seemed more like a transient from Hollywood than a potential singer of real grand opera. In the Pasha's Garden was such a flaccid, sterile piece, offered such feeble opportunities, that critics would only say that Helen Jepson was unusually pretty, her smallish voice agreeable (TIME. Feb. 4). Last week in Chicago Helen Jepson was put to a stiffer test as the heroine of Thais, the role long associated there with incomparable Mary...
...King Solomon of Broadway" is, if possible, worse than its companion feature. The plot is equally primerish, and unrelieved by shots of the naval academy. There are various gangsters and a gambling joint, a millionaires dance-contest winner who is kidnapped, and a pure young secretary-singer who marries her boss. Edmund Lowe is the star, but the picture would have been equally bad without...