Word: tenore
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...Boston Symphony Orchestra, which--will give its second Sanders Theatre concert of the season this evening at 8 o'clock will have for its soloist, Mr. Roland Hayes, the negro tenor who recently returned from the second of two successful concert tours abroad...
Gifford Pinchot. Once having taken up the issue of prohibition enforcement, Governor Pinchot was careful not to let it drop. He continued to apostrophize Secretary Mellon to the general tenor of, " Oh, why do you not enforce prohibition as I would have it done ?" Mr. Mellon replied in effect: "You have 10-000 city police and 260 state police in Pennsylvania. I have 1,522 officers to enforce prohibition in 48 states and three territories. Eighty-six of my men are in Pennsylvania. In two years and two months they reported 7,142 violations, secured 1,434 convictions, revoked...
After singing English, French and Italian songs at the City Hall, Prague, Roland Hayes, American Negro tenor (TiME, Oct. 8, Music), gave another concert. His accompanist stated in the German language that the first number would be a Negro song. Up jumped an irate Czech and demanded: " What's become of the Czech language ?" Bedlam was let loose. The pianist repeated the announcement in English; the noise and confusion grew worse. Finally, Roland Hayes himself came forward and politely reminded the objectors that their money was waiting for them at the boxoffice. The intractable Czechs took the hint...
...month ago, TIME gave an account of the activities of Roland Hayes, Negro tenor. Last week a Negro soprano, Miss Louetta Chatman, was well received at her first appearance at Aeolian Hall, Manhattan. Although not the first Negro to be heard in recital, she was the first to have been trained by a teacher of her own race ? Wilson Lamb...
...From the tenor of these remarks it might erroneously be inferred that The Swan possesses tragic, ravenesque propensities. The Swan is a comedy. The wisdom of it is equaled, nay surpassed, by the pungence...