Word: tenoritis
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...wings a substitute tenor (Lauritz Melchior) fidgeted, waiting to take over the title-role should sick Tenor Sigmund Pilinsky collapse. On the dais, the back of Conductor Arturo Toscanini's mind held worry for his wife, in the hospital all week with a broken leg. Frau Cosima was dead. Son Siegfried had pneumonia. Nearest of kin to great Wilhelm Richard Wagner, in charge of this first evening of the 1930 Bayreuth festival was Siegfried's anxious wife. Yet despite all difficulties Tannhauser soared sonorously, sublimely to its final great choral of pity and pardon. When it was ended...
Upshot: The Senatorial investigators disbanded quickly, Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, most active inquisitor, sailing for Europe, without indicating whether or not they would make a report on this investigation of the Food, Drug & Insecticide Administration. If a report is made, the tenor of the final hearings last week indicated it will whitewash the U.S. administrators, as they have been whitewashed since the official days of the late Dr. Harvey Washington Wiley (see pg. 32), and it will recommend increased appropriation for Administration work. The Pharmacopoeia specifications for standard ergot extract may be changed. A committee has already started work...
Died. Joseph Thuma ("Joe") Schenck, 38. tenor half of "Van & Schenck," variety's, famed, "highest-salaried" ($3,000 weekly) male song team; suddenly, of heart disease; at Detroit...
...perforce, in overalls), then in big-time vaudeville theatres as "Van & Schenck-the pennant-winning battery of songland." Favorite Van & Schenck numbers: "When You're a Long, Long Way from Home," "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows," "Don't Blame It All On Broadway." Conductor Schenck sang tenor and carried the accompaniment; when there was "patter" he took it. Motorman Van Glove boomed the melody. After the War they both grew rich by singing in vaudeville revues, roadhouses, over the radio, the audible cinema. Conductor Schenck took it easy on his yacht between engagements. Last week...
Four new operas will be added to the repertoire: Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson, based on the novel of George du Maurier, in which will appear Soprano Lucrezia Bori, Tenor Edward Johnson, Baritone Lawrence Tibbett; Franz von Suppé's Boccaccio, a comic opera in which Soprano Maria Jeritza will appear as a male impersonator; Mussorgsky's The Fair at Sorochinsk, also a comic opera based on a story by Gogol; Le Preziose Ridicole, based on Molière's play...