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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...
Deems Taylor was a successful professional writer long before his music began to sell. His libretto, free from operatic archaisms, is excellent. Yet (as in other English opera) there were bits that sounded funny and forced. Contralto Grace Divine sang: "What a lovely ball!'' Contralto Marion Telva sang back: "You think so? Thank you!" Longer passages adapted themselves more smoothly to the flow of music, as in Peter's first-act narrative. Excerpt...
...greatest admirers agreed that her Louise in no way threatened the Garden prerogative. Her singing, usually far "better, was last week shrill. Her acting was pretty but stilted, as was that of tenor Antonin Trantoul who was Julien, her lover. Better characterizations were those of Contralto Marion Telva as the ill-tempered mother; of Basso Leon Rothier as the father so dumbly doting that he drove Louise back to Julien and the free-and-easy Paris. The audience appeared to appreciate most Max Bloch who as an old-clothesman stalked on the stage and off wearing half a dozen toppling...
With Conductor Frederick A. Stock specially brought from Chicago to conduct Wagnerian excerpts and Frank V. Van der Stucken to interpret Beethoven's pieties; with Marie Sundelius, Richard Crooks, Marion Telva, Florence Austral, Nevada Van der Verr, Horace Stevens, Ben Davies and many another on hand to vocalize; even with music critics from leading other-city newspapers to listen, applaud and report? Cincinnati last week held its 27th May Music Festival...
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