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...varied program has been planned for the five sections of the Clubs: J. S. B. Archer '30, tenor soloist, will present some selections; another feature of the specialties will be the Hawaiian Trio, composed of Eustis Dearborn '32, R. S. Watson '32, and R. B. Harrison '32. DeWitt Stetten, Jr. '30, magician, will mystify his audience with legerdemain...
Parisians and their police were baffled last week by an offense little short of criminal but against which there is no Paris law. One evening at the opera, Tenor Franz was in the midst of a favorite aria when out upon the stage from her box climbed a young person later identified as one Sylvia Peres of Italy. Apparently overcome by an exhibitionist impulse, she threw herself into a vigorous and not inept display of fancy dance steps. Tenor Franz stood speechless. The orchestra stopped, gaping. Mlle. Peres danced on with abandon, coming to a climax with one heel...
Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) rests in peace at Canessa Tomb, Naples, where he may be seen by visitors with special permission. Last week in Paris hard-singing Tenor Tito Schipa announced that the body would be exhumed and redressed by friends every three years so that Caruso might always appear fashionably garbed...
...present. Puccini was awarded an eight-foot wreath, Belasco was "divinely happy." Yet he declared he was happier last week. Jeritza and he took a dozen bows together. He kissed her hand. She kissed his cheek. The other players did not count. As Forty-Niners they were patently masquerading. Tenor Giovanni Martinelli (Dick Johnson) had suffered and sobbed in the best Italian manner. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett (Jack Rance) was more credible, but looked funny in an Abraham Lincoln makeup. It was Jeritza who raised the performance above incongruity, saved the plot from appearing like any cinematic melodrama. She made comedy...
Three singers made debuts during the Metropolitan's first week. Mezzo-soprano Eleanor La Mance of Jacksonville, Fla., a thin-legged, hollow-voiced girl, was "a musician" in the opening Manon Lescaut, sang her one aria nervously. Alfredo Gandolfi, who might have been any pot-bellied Italian tenor, was "a sergeant...