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Screenplay by MILES HOOD SWARTHOUT and SCOTT HALE...
...Opera grew into one of the most interesting companies in America. It never had chic like Salzburg or Bay-reuth-but then, the European festivals do not offer beer, hot dogs and wild animals to patrons bored with La Traviata and Rigoletto. Besides, where else could one hear Gladys Swarthout and Rise Stevens break in their Carmens, see Jeanette MacDonald in Faust, catch James Melton in his first Madama Butterfly, or stroll into a Rigoletto and hear Jan Peerce and Robert Weede making their professional debuts...
Died. Gladys Swarthout, 64, glamorous diva of the Metropolitan Opera from 1930 to 1945, whose rich mezzo-soprano was matched by a striking, auburn-haired beauty; of a heart attack; in Florence, Italy. Born in Deepwater, Mo., Miss Swarthout started her singing career in her home-town church choir, then joined the Chicago Civic Opera in 1924 and learned more than 20 complete roles in her first year. By 1929 she was with the Met, winning acclaim for her roles in Norma, Faust, Lakme, Romeo and Juliet and particularly Carmen. Between performances, she popularized opera on radio, starred in movies...
...author of Where the Boys Are, a bestselling novel about collegians on vacation, has now taken a giant step into Greek tragedy. He should have stayed with the boys in Fort Lauderdale. Greek grandeur is not duplicated by a setting in Thebes (Mich.) or Greek name-dropping. Swarthout reads like a parody of a bad translation of Homer: "At last the leaves are fallen; then do men their duty to the tree-crop, rite singular to towns, to which only fathers and sons may be initiate: leaf burning . . . Wives and mothers watch, doing dishes, their heads and shoulders oracular...
...year-old nymphomaniac. Smith plots to blackmail them on a statutory rape charge, and the novel is soon awash with sex and violence. The ancient Greeks knew the value of restraint; Oedipus' crime was the more horrible because it was the only one in the play. Swarthout produces so many horrors he satiates the reader. Nobody will be fooled by pseudo-Greek trappings. "This body was as stately," writes Swarthout, preparing for a seduction scene, "as classic in its shaft of rib and hip and thigh as a column of Ionic order, the lavish capitals of the breasts...