Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...full of frolic. He had composed so much that writing music was no longer an effort, and frequently as he wrote, he said, he was convulsed with laughter. The score is easy, melodious, lighthearted, reminiscent of Wagner iu mannerism rather than in poetry. Miss Bori was Mistress Ford; Tenor Gigli, Master Fenton; Mme. Alda, Nannette. All did well, But the critics, as they hailed their frost-bitten taxi-men and drove home, were replacing their familiar bromides with other phrases: "A scene quite without precedent" (The New York Times) ; "A relatively obscure singer who walked away with the chief honors...
There was missing, to be sure, the usual quota of scenic and obscenic effects, but that was not an unmitigated loss, for it meant that no semi-operatic tenor heaved his chest in extolling them. In other respects the show would outrun the average revue many weeks, for the entire chorus was unique in intricacy and activity. The skits were funnier than the average, and provoked more laughs, and although they did not nearly realize all their possibilities--notably the sketch in the bedroom. Such acting as there was in the course of the evening lacked subtlety, which suited...
...Some of the unattended ladies were Representative Mae E. Nolan, Mrs. Eugene Hale (mother of Senator Hale of Maine and widow of Senator Eugene Hale), Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant (daughter-in-law of the famed General), Mrs. Edward B. McLean (wife of the Washington publisher). Fiddler Albert Spalding and Tenor Ralph Errolle gave a musicale afterwards...
...Cosmopolitan (founded in 1886 and bought by Mr. Hearst in 1905), which in 1912 became purely a fiction magazine. Evidently the crusading was felt to be not the strongest selling feature of Hearst's International, for, though ax-grinding continued, bolstered by "human interest" features ranging in tenor from the earnest optimism of the American Magazine to the flatulent body-worship of the Macfadden publications, the emphasis was more than ever on fiction. Last year, Norman Hapgood, widely known through his associations with Collier's and Harper's, was put in charge as editor; but, in spite of this...
Elisha Lee was a large black English Negro. His big soft tenor voice made him rich, enabled him to smoke fat cigars, wear silk socks, fur overcoats, diamond rings, roses. But Elisha Lee was lonely, both as animal and artist. He wanted a white woman to love him. And when he obtained pretty Ownie Tremlett for his wife it was only because she could not resist vulgar luxury in the face of frowsy widowhood in Brighton. They soon hated each other bitterly and a weakling mulatto baby was the core of their hate. Lee drank and died. Ownie reverted...