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Next night two special trains brought 1,400 New Havenites down from Connecticut to hear Tenor Charles Kullmann make his début as Faust. Some members of the delegation remembered him when he was a boy soprano singing for 5? a Sunday at St. Paul's Episcopal Church. Others first knew him as the husky young member of the Class of 1924 who soloed with the Yale Glee Club. All were aware of the name he had made for himself in Berlin, Vienna and at the Salzburg Festival under Conductor Arturo Toscanini. Nor did his old friends seem...
...graceful young Helen Oelheim, another débutante who did all she could with the absurd role of Siebel, for which she had to dress as a boy, flutter about picking flowers. Back-slapping scene of the week took place in the Grand Central station late that night when Tenor Kullmann rushed through the "Charles Kullmann" specials, shaking hands with his townsfolk to whom he was just plain Charlie...
...square old backstage office which used to be Gatti-Casazza's sat a cheerful youngish-looking man whom opera audiences had known as a romantic Romeo, a wistful Pelleas, a dreamy Peter Ibbetson. Last week Tenor Edward Johnson was dealing with hard realities, amiably settling disputes, busily drawing up schedules for 14 weeks to come. As a singer Tenor Johnson was never a rafter-rending vocalist but as an artist he was possessed of unfailing taste and intelligence, a man on friendly terms with all his colleagues, one who out of working hours could detach himself from opera...
Baritone Lawrence Tibbett appeared as Tenor Crook's persuasive, grey-haired father, contributed the best singing of the evening. The American Ballet furnished sprightly dancers for the lavish ballroom scenes. There were fresh new settings by Designer Jonel Jorgulesco. And a young U. S. singer, plump, dark-haired Thelma Votipka, sang confidently but had little chance to prove herself...
Seventeen of the 79 singers are new this season and several of them richly deserved their appointments. Philadelphia's Dusolina Giannini has had great success in Germany and Austria. Australian Marjorie Lawrence has been a rage in Paris. Contralto Gertrud Wettergren is a favorite in her native Sweden. Tenor Charles Kullman (Yale, 1924) has done well for himself in Europe, as has Soprano Susanne Fischer of Sutton, W. Va., who will make her Metropolitan debut as Madame Butterfly. Two of the newcomers are Belgians : Tenor René Maison and Basso Hubert Raidich. Baritone Carlo Morelli is a Chilean, Eduard...