Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Therefore, last week when Manhattanites thronged the Metropolitan Opera to hear & see a new Rodolfo, Polish Tenor Jan Kiepura's exploits as Central Europe's cinema idol were no particular recommendation. But they found before the performance was over that a virile figure was not Kiepura's only asset. Tall, handsome Kiepura overacted at times, flopped melodramatically upon the prostrate corpse of Mimi. But his singing was agreeably robust, warm in tone quality. Applauding oldsters agreed that there was nothing the matter with Kiepura's diaphragm...
...Boston Symphony this week, as she conducts the "Requiem" of Gabriel Faure and plays the organ part in Saint-Saens' C minor Symphony. In the performance of the "Requiem," the Orchestra will be assisted by the Bach Cantata Club and the following soloists: Gisela Peyron, soprano; Hugues Cuenod, tenor; and Doda Conrad, baritone...
...first act is an introduction to Grovers Corners and its inhabitants. During the course of it Mr. Craven calls upon a little squirrel of a professor to give the geological history and other recondite data of the town, and also upon a prominent citizen to sketch in the general tenor of the place and to answer the questions of a Communist, a cultural uplift lady, and a W. C. T. U. worker, all scattered through the audience. The second act deals with love and marriage, and the third with death...
George W. Stinson, 35. weighing 200 handsome pounds, was brought up in a St. Louis orphanage, became a San Francisco motorcycle policeman in 1926. In 1930 Mine Ernestine Schumann-Heink admired his tenor voice. Four years later San Francisco Opera Director Gaetano Merola took Officer Stinson under his wing, called him a potential Caruso. Sympathetic professionals, including Singers Giovanni Martinelli, Gina Cigna, Kirsten Flagstad, pitched in to send Officer Stinson abroad to study. This week Officer George Stinson, on leave of absence from the California Highway Patrol, sails, with his wife and 16-year-old stepson, for Italy. Said...
Michael Bartlett, whose even tenor was a mainstay of Princeton Triangle shows 13 years back, sings with as much grace and gusto as pretty Kitty Carlisle. Hampered in Hollywood by being only half-photogenic (one profile is much handsomer than the other), in Three Waltzes Singer Bartlett shows his full face. Costumes, by Connie De Pinna, are good all around...