Word: singers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Schwartz last week showed 14 symphonic forms, sultry, rich splotches of color into which had been thrown trees and unidentifiable objects. Now 39, Schwartz came to the U. S. at 17 from Smorgon, Russia, was successively steelworker, housepainter, restaurant singer before he got friends in Omaha to stake him to a year at the Chicago Art Institute. Since then the voluble little intellectual has won three Institute prizes. Unmarried, he lives in a two-room, cluttered studio, sometimes sings in vaudeville, has a government commission for a mural in the Fairfield, Ill. post office...
Tullio Carminati is an Italian nobleman who meets Ida Lupino on top of the Eiffel Tower from which he is doing his best to jump because Miss Ellis, a cafe singer, has refused to marry him. James Blakeley, looking for Ida Lupino, his fiancee, enlists the help of Lynne Overman, magnificent as a member of the Sûreté. Things build to a spacious and impressively scored wedding night in a chateau with a large cast of serfs singing nuptial choruses regardless of the fact that neither woman is with the right man, and neither is married...
...Maria Metten, daughter of the Chief of Police of Namur, Belgium. A mezzo-soprano, she sang in church choirs and local concerts, yearned to be an opera singer. But Bourgeois Papa Metten would have no truck with such notions. When Daughter Maria got a bit in La Favorita with a local opera company, went home with an armful of flowers after what she considered a triumphal debut, she found the Metten doors sternly locked. Thereupon Maria Metten borrowed money from friends, went to Brussels, then to Paris, finally made a clean break with her family by getting...
...Nine qualified for scholarships given by such people as Mrs. Charles H. Swift (Soprano Claire Dux) and Mrs. Archibald Freer, who stipulated that her beneficiary must learn and sing an aria from her opera. Joan of Arc. Youngest pupil is a girl of 16, oldest a Chicago concert singer named Marie Zendt, fiftyish. Though Miss Garden began teaching with great gusto and abandon, sometimes slapping a thigh for emphasis, her class last week persisted in feeling too religiously awed even to laugh at their teacher's quips...
...opera cinema will not only parallel that of musicomedy in the movies by sticking to one general story but will even copy the same story over & over. As in Grace Moore's preceding picture, One Night of Love, the heroine of Love Me Forever is a struggling opera singer. In this one Miss Moore meets an underworld cabaret owner (Leo Carrillo) who falls in love with her, contrives to get her a job with the Metropolitan Opera, suffers severe pangs until she gives up the notion of marrying a Boston socialite...