Word: theatricalities
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...most serviceable of first-night choices. The cast was headed by Soprano Maria Miiller who was pretty, capable, unexciting; Tenor Giovanni Martinelli who sang loudly. The best performance was by Conductor Tullio Serafin who treated the great tunes tenderly, kept the whole moving at a swift and theatric pace...
...individual singers. Hence, last week, friends of Conductor Tullio Serafin of the Metropolitan Opera Company were pleased to hear of homage paid him in Philadelphia, where he appeared three times as guest conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, where he imparted to taxing symphonic programs the same glancing, theatric charm that has characterized his best performances at Manhattan's opera house...
...lights. He chose a baton from the rack and began a careful, orthodox Vorspiel. Care alone, however, could not make it clean, clear-cut. Sometimes it raced confusedly, as did parts of the opera which followed. Occasionally it groped and dragged. Never, obviously, was there an attempt for theatric effect. A left hand floating in an aimless way kept the instruments subdued, the colors pale. But it found no tender lyric lines to caress, wrested no deep significance from the great human comedy. Many kind critics suspended all judgment until further hearing. The stranger was young, his debut...
...Author of La Gena delle Befle which came to the U. S. as The Jest and starred John Barrymore: later lathered with theatric lines by Umberto Giordano and given as an opera...
...seats in Parliament, must campaign with desperate zeal against Conservatives ("Tories") who hold 412 seats, and the Labor contingent of 157. Second, the death of the Earl of Oxford and Asquith has left David Lloyd George supreme within the Liberal Party, so that even those who dislike his theatric methods hail him as the "Man of Victory." Lastly, the kinetic personality of Orator Lloyd George nearly always sweeps his auditors off their feet. Indeed he swept all Britain and won the election of 1918 with that preposterous slogan: "Hang the Kaiser...