Word: tibbett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York University (New York N. Y.) President James Rowland Angell of yale.... LL.D. President James Bryant Conant of Harvard..... LL.D. President Harold Willis Dodds of Princeton....LL.D. Thomas William Lamont..... LL.D. Baritone Lawrence Mervil Tibbett. . . D.Mus...
Kykunkor (Witch Woman) closed for a few days but last week it reopened uptown in the smart little Chanin Auditorium. Best seats at the Unity Theatre had cost 35?. At the Chanin they were $2.75 and the list of enthusiasts had grown to include Leopold Stokowski, Lawrence Tibbett, George Gershwin, Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Van Doren. "One of the most exciting shows in town," critics were saying. But the songs and dances make it so. Kykunkor's plot is slender. It tells of an African villager who chooses a bride, succumbs to the evil magic of another less...
...Pons, Ponselle and Lawrence Tibbett struggled to get radio auditions but no one in the broadcasting studios had heard of them. The 1934 finale was a jazzed version of Aida with a Ford used instead of horses and all the members of the company kowtowing to Cartoonist Otto Soglow who sat on the throne dressed like his own "Little King." But as the audience jostled out into the night the talk was not so much of the comedy as of the evening's one serious interlude. When Narrator Knight reached the year 1921 the stage was empty save...
...Cecil B. De Mille cinema. Marigold was called upon to make two entrances in a floral cart, like Miss America in an Atlantic City parade. Swedish Goeta Ljungberg did as well as she could by a rôle for which she was badly miscast. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett as Wrestling came nearest to saving the performance. He struggled bravely to make the audience sympathize with the soul-wracked bigot. He sang richly, made words intelligible. Sample from the dream scene...
...Onetime Accompanist to Lawrence Tibbett...