Word: tenore
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...before a socialite audience in Boston's little Peabody Playhouse strode tall, slender Francis Grover Cleveland, 29, son of Grover Cleveland, 24th President of the U. S. Cried he in a full tenor: "Heh, heh, me proud beauty! Now I have you in muh powah!" Complete with cutaway, half-inch diamond and curling black mustache, he was impersonating Villain Richard Murgatroyd in a modern burlesque of oldtime melodrama called Gold in the Hills, or the Dead Sister's Secret. The audience approved his performance with hearty hisses. The production was the first by a semiprofessional stock company...
...tenor of the remarks made by the members in committee implied that since it has been impossible to force the colleges to play taxes, this request was the best way out, and implied a moral obligation on the members of the faculties to comply. However this may apply to the other institutions involved, it is not wholly valid in regard to Harvard, which agreed several years ago to pay taxes on a large part of the University plant in Cambridge. In any case it is difficult to see why individual members of the faculty should be forced to make good...
...about to be given in English which they could not understand. Soprano Pearl Besuner, made up as a haggish black woman, was almost unintelligible as she informed Smithers, Jones's cockney factotum, that the natives had rebelled, gathered on a distant hill to hatch Jones's death. Tenor Marek Windheim's cockney accent only added to the confusion. But then Baritone Lawrence Tibbett swaggered on the stage...
...Simone Boccanegra last autumn Tibbett opened the Manhattan opera season (TIME, Nov. 28). an honor the Metropolitan has given to only one other male singer, the late great Tenor Caruso. Tenors are naturally the heroes of most operas just as pitchers are the heroes of ball games. Baritones, like catchers, have to knock homeruns to be noticed and their chances at conspicuous parts come less often than a catcher's turn at bat. Tibbett's homerun in Falstaff earned him a $1,500 bonus from the Metropolitan management and opportunities which, stretching out into four distinct musical fields...
...late Financier Thomas Fortune Ryan. He wanted its Associated Press franchise for a new English language daily which he named the Newark Free Press. After six months he abandoned both. The Free Press vanished immediately but the Freie Zeitung limped along in receivership, fell successively under control of Opera Tenor Walther Kirchhoff and the German-American Typographical Union. Last week the Zeitung hopefully called its suspension "temporary...