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...narrative fades in with the young person enroute to a Manhattan speakeasy with her fiance. Drinking therein are an Italian tenor and a courtly ex-judge. Before many reels have elapsed the fiance gets himself jailed for badgering a cop and the young person finds herself in the tenor's rooms for the night. So childlike and pure is she that he puts her to bed with a huge teddy bear and goes to sleep on the sofa. He surprises her and probably himself the next morning by proposing marriage. Since she has fallen drip-pingly in love with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 16, 1931 | 11/16/1931 | See Source »

...monocle as well known abroad as that worn by Sir Austen Chamberlain or the late Baron Ehrenfried Gtinther von Hunefeld arrived in Manhattan last week on the S.S. Bremen. It came securely fixed in the eye of German Tenor Richard Tauber who, to perfect the scene, carried a pet dachshund under each arm, Fritzi & Mitzi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Monocle Man | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...where Tenor McCormack has coined a great part of his success from Irish ballads of the Mother Machree type, Tenor Tauber's medium has been in operetta, chiefly in those written by his Viennese friend, Franz Lehar (The Merry Widow, The Count of Luxemburg, Gypsy Love). At his debut recital last week (attended by Tenor McCormack and many another musical notable) Tenor Tauber surprised everyone by not wearing his monocle, but he did display the entire range of his versatility. With conventional operatic zest he sang an aria from Mehul's almost forgotten Joseph in Egypt. His loud tones were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Monocle Man | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

Married. Eleanor Painter, soprano, divorced wife of Tenor Louis Graveure; and Charles Henry Strong, Cleveland department store manager, father-in-law of Newton Diehl Baker III; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Milestones: Nov. 2, 1931 | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

...Philadelphia last week she sang it in its rightful pagan setting. Languorously, with blandishment in every tone, she tried to stay the truant Tannhäuser whose torn soul was marvelously depicted by the stately chords of holy Pilgrim music and the madly skirling strings of a Bacchanal. Tenor Gotthelf Pistor had the nasal, strutting manner of most German tenors, but his Tannhäuser showed a certain dark-toned dignity. Conductor Fritz Reiner made a proud showing for his U. S. opera début, the opening of the Philadelphia opera season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Philadelphia Curtain | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

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