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...actor, Polish Tenor Jan Kiepura does not know his own strength. Last summer in an outdoor performance of Carmen at Chicago's Soldier Field, vigorous Kiepura acted so hard in the third act quarrel scene that he knocked handsome Contralto Gladys Swarthout cold. That gave somebody's pressagent an idea...
Sopranos Frieda Hempel, Maria Jeritza; Contraltos Gladys Swarthout, Marian Anderson, Louise Homer; Baritone Reinald Werrenrath; Violinist Yehudi Menuhin...
...only Jew in the student body. Stagestruck, he became a smalltime actor, later a smalltime producer, putting on several flops while rejecting such hits as Once in a Lifetime and Room Service. He found his feet as talent scout for Paramount, where he discovered Cary Grant, Margo, Gladys Swarthout, many another. Sniffing a hit in Clarence Day's Father sketches, he tied up the stage rights, commissioned Lindsay & Crouse to write the play. His last chore before entering the Army will be to produce their new one, Strip for Action, which reaches Broadway late this month...
...perils of opera singing struck again: in an outdoor production of Carmen at Chicago's Soldier Field, Tenor Jan Kiepura spurned Mezzo-Soprano Gladys Swarthout so thoroughly that he knocked her cold against the stage floor. Carried off and revived, she finished the show with a banged-up forehead...
Last week's Command Performance put the whole Fred Allen troupe on the air, plus Songstress Gladys Swarthout, Sportswriter John Kieran, Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll, Comic Henny Youngman. Mr. Kieran talked about sports and the Brooklyn Dodgers. The band played Deep in the Heart of Texas for some homesick Marines in the Caribbean...