Word: tibbett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Classical singer (male) Tibbett...
...Neither interest in Soprano Leider nor Baritone Tibbett's success in Emperor Jones (TIME, Jan. 16) has been enough to keep the Metropolitan out of the financial plight in which it found itself last spring. Despite reduced salaries and a shortened season a $400,000 deficit had directors wondering last week whether to disband or attempt drastic reorganization. Most credible rumor: a twelve weeks' season in New York might be combined with visits to other cities which would be called upon for backing. Louis Eckstein, Ravinia's patron and newest of the Metropolitan's directors, would...
...Tibbett's Metropolitan Opera audition got him a $60-a-week contract. He made his debut as Valentine in Faust, learned the role in two days without knowing a word of French. Just another baritone, critics thought, with a better voice than most but no experience. He muddled his entrances and exits. His elbows stuck out. His small, turned-up nose was not much to look at. He got the chance to sing Ford in Falstaff only because Baritone Vincente Ballester was sick. When the audience started shouting for him Tibbett was upstairs in his dressing-room removing...
Since then Tibbett has behaved as modestly as any good Alger hero. He has a new wife, the former Mrs. Jennie Marston Burgard,-a home in Hollywood's fashionable Beverly Hills, a Lincoln car which he drives like mad. But Tibbett has cultivated no lofty conceits, no temperamental whimsies. He refused the private dining room which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer gave him in Hollywood. He still thinks, and says, that singing is "just about the best fun that the human animal can have." He will still burst into song on the street or in restaurants...
...Companions of Mrs. Tibbett at last week's premiere were Mr. & Mrs. Harvey S. Firestone Jr. *Daughter of retired banker Edgar L. Marston of Manhattan. She was married twice before, to Robert J. Adams, son of the chewing-gum tycoon, and to John Clark Burgard of San Francisco...