Word: tenoritis
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There is a pallid beauty in many of these passages, and the songs which interrupt the action and contain the best poetry have other effective bits. But they are not enough to disguise the fact that the whole tenor of the piece is that of an almost unhealthy shrinking from activity and the life of the world. It is perhaps significant that the writer's favorite adjective and one which appears on nearly every page is "wan". "Thalia" is wan; it exists in a dream world of its own and lacks the vitality that is an essential part...
...dominated the Freiburg Passion Play, passing its privilege to its heirs. In Manhattan six Fassnachts appeared. Georg was a tragically mercurial Judas. Georg Jr. was Johannes. Amalie, Elsa and Augusta were respectively Mary, Mary Magdalene, the Blind Woman. Adolf, the eldest, gave to the Christus a grave presence, a tenor voice of such reedy purity and pliability that the German tongue seemed, in his mouth, no longer one of the world's least lovely languages...
...Palermo, brought to New Haven, Conn., as a child, lately a member of the San Carlo and American Opera Companies; 2) Eleanor La Mance, Jacksonville mezzo-soprano, well known in small Italian opera houses; 3) Gladys Swarthout, Kansas City mezzo-soprano, formerly of the Chicago Opera; 4) Edward Ransome, tenor, born in Canada, U. S. citizen, known in Italy as Edoardo di Renzo...
Other new voices will be: Elisabeth Ohms, Dutch dramatic soprano, with a reputation won at the Munich and Covent Garden Operas; Antoine Trantoul, French tenor of the Paris Opera and Opera Comique; Alfredo Gandolfi, baritone, favorite interpreter in his native Italy of such roles as Don Giovanni; Tancredo Pasero, basso, of European and South American fame. Josef Rosenstock, conductor, will be imported from Wiesbaden to replace Artur Bodanzky; Ernst Lert, stage director of La Scala at Milan, to replace Samuel Thewman...
Among the personal triumphs, Mr. John Archer's clear tenor voice was outstanding, but he should try for more pointedness in his spoken parts. Mr. Fonda's clowning did more to keep up the risibility than any other single feature, while Mr. Partridge was especially adept in his dancing specialty. The adagio waltz specialty by Mr. Winter and Miss Frothingham should also prove enjoyable...