Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Portland, Ore. (Aug. 12), San Francisco (Aug. 17), Atlanta (Aug. 17), Dallas (Aug. 21), Salt Lake City (Aug. 24), Kansas City (Aug. 26), Chicago (Aug. 31). Shippers were instructed to keep their argument on a broad basis and not single out individual roads for attack. The tenor of the opposition was to be, apparently, that the roads would not increase their net revenue by rate upping because shippers would cut their consignments or find other means of transportation, thus causing freight traffic to drop even more...
Next day's Parsifal was orchestrally poignant, lyric. Slower than most was Toscanini's tender reading. A magnificent Gurnemanz (Basso Ivar Andresen of the Metropolitan), a poetic Parsifal (Tenor Fritz Wolff), a comely but vocally insecure Kundry (Soprano Elisabeth Ohms), sang their way through Wagner's leisurely, sometimes philosophically turbid drama. The sets "dated from 1882 and looked...
...elimination of free advertising-by less violent means. By agreement of the Publishers' Association of New York City all newspapers continued to print fairly complete radio programs but struck out all names of sponsors. Thus the Camel Quarter Hour became simply "Morton Downey, tenor; orchestra; talk, Anthony Wons" ; Lucky Strike was not mentioned in the listing of "B. A. Rolfe Orchestra...
...plump, liquid-eyed tenor is Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, who earns fat contracts by hurling lusty high C's at the boxes in William Tell, caroling lushly in operatic staples like La Traviata and Rigoletto. He has been paid well by the Metropolitan Opera. But he says that the U. S. is culturally immature, that he will stay in Europe next year when his contract expires. There he is more appreciated. In Paris, for instance, it is a gala occasion when he sings as guest star; the Opera pushes up its prices a bit (usually $3.20 for best orchestra seats...
...things turned out to make the Bennetts, like the Barrymores, a legendary family in the theatre. Barbara, second daughter, was the first to go into the movies, before she became a dancing partner of the late Maurice (Maurice Oscar Louis Mouvet). Now she is the wife of Radio Tenor Morton Downey, who last week became temporarily blind from exposing his eyes to a sunlamp. Joan, youngest daughter, married when she was 16, divorced at 18, now gets $2,000 a week from Fox (current picture: Hush Money). Constance, most spectacular of the three, has ash-blonde hair, big round eyes...