Word: tenors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chaplin is the last of the old guard to rely on native dramatic ability to gain his effects. Acting, is his art, the art of pantomime, and he does not want applause that is bought by gazing at a cardboard balcony and exercising a wheezy tenor, or archly boop-boop-a-doopering. The master comedian is clearly of the opinion that motion pictures, like peacocks, are fine when they silently unfold their tails, but when they attempt to speak it's a very different matter...
Steuart Wilson English tenor, and former member of the English Singers will give a vocal recital at the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, in the Music Building, tonight at 8.15 o'clock Mr. Wilson, who is an authority on the interpretation of Bach and of Folk Music has been asked to sing by the faculty of the Division of Music, and will be accompanied by Dalies Frantz...
...chunky like most Lucias. She was fragile-appearing as befits an opera heroine who must die of grief, graceful, chicly costumed. Her first singing was uneven but after villainous Lord Ashton (Baritone Giuseppe de Luca) had driven her to her wits' end with his connivings against her lover (Tenor Beniamino Gigli) she found her stride. The Mad Scene, given in the key of F instead of a tone lower as is usually the case, was superbly sung. Difficult chromatic runs and arpeggios done with the greatest ease, trills and staccati true to pitch (coloraturas are inclined to sing...
...Lily Pons's first performances there were none so excited as a portly middle-aged couple well known to the opera public of 20 years ago. The woman was Maria Gay, once a famed Carmen with the Metropolitan and Boston Opera companies. The man was her husband, Tenor Giovanni Zenatello. Motoring along the Riviera last winter these two had stopped in at a little opera house in Montpellier to hear Lucia. After the small-town performance they rushed backstage to meet the soprano. "Will you come to America if I can get you an audition with the Metropolitan?" Madame...
...sign around its neck and the audience guffawed when it was told that the dog was blind, not the master. Little George Meader caused a big laugh when he appeared made up as the Mad Hatter, tripped over a carpet bag, played a serenade on a red silk umbrella. Tenor Walther Kirchhoff was no funnier than usual but the audience snickered when he came out carrying a sun flower. Occasional exclamations escaped in English: "Sure!", "Sonny Boy!", "Whoopee...