Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strength of her London success and her box-office power Cinemactress Grace Moore has been re-engaged. Pretty Helen Jepson will be given more leading roles than she had last season. Outstanding contraltos are Karin Branzell, Doris Doe, Gladys Swarthout, Cyrena Van Gordon, Rose Bampton, Kathryn Meisle and Marion Telva, who has been badly missed since she left the Metropolitan in 1931. Outstanding tenors: Lauritz Melchior, Paul Althouse, Giovanni Martinelli. Charles Hackett. Nino Martini. The baritones: Lawrence Tibbett, John Charles Thomas, Friedrich Schorr, Richard Bonelli. The bassos: Ezio Pinza, Ludwig Hofmann, Emanuel List, Leon Rothier...
Seventeen of the 79 singers are new this season and several of them richly deserved their appointments. Philadelphia's Dusolina Giannini has had great success in Germany and Austria. Australian Marjorie Lawrence has been a rage in Paris. Contralto Gertrud Wettergren is a favorite in her native Sweden. Tenor Charles Kullman (Yale, 1924) has done well for himself in Europe, as has Soprano Susanne Fischer of Sutton, W. Va., who will make her Metropolitan debut as Madame Butterfly. Two of the newcomers are Belgians : Tenor René Maison and Basso Hubert Raidich. Baritone Carlo Morelli is a Chilean, Eduard...
...secretary because she hates to have anyone fussing around her. She is shy with strangers, content to knit, play solitaire, see Greta Garbo cinemas, eat one spanking meal a day and treat herself to a half bottle of champagne when she feels that a performance has been a success. Since she arrived in the U. S. the hearty Norse has never had reason to deny herself the champagne reward. Like every singer who has made a Metropolitan success, she has taken to the road, given concerts before audiences which have seemingly found her perfect. This season she has already given...
inspiring tales he told. When no one thought success a crime...
...grief and partly because his enemies were trying to discredit his administration of the Navy Office. Pepys threw himself wholeheartedly into his job. He became a walking encyclopedia of Navy affairs, was able to confound almost single-handed the Parliamentary commission of investigation, went on to combat, with varying success, the inadequate funds, irresponsibility and chaos that marked the Navy of Charles...