Word: tibbett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...front of the curtain of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House to bow right & left in a shattering storm of applause. Ten times there appeared with him a stocky, wavy-haired man in busi- ness clothes who stood and looked bewildered. The coffee-colored man was Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, the bewildered one Composer Louis Gruenberg. Because Gruenberg had been fascinated by a short, stark play of Eugene O'Neill's called Emperor Jones, because he had hunted O'Neill out one midnight in Paris two years ago, got permission to set the play to music and then...
From his chair in the wings this week Mr. Gatti watched Baritone Lawrence Tibbett impersonate Simone Boccanegra, a 14th Century doge whose life was thoroughly cluttered with political intrigues, kidnappings, poisonings. The audience, Mr. Gatti knew, would make little effort to follow the complicated plot. The few powerful, cumulative moments in the music would not make up for the lack of familiar, fetching tunes. But Simone Boccanegra suited Mr. Gatti for the season's opening opera. His hero Verdi wrote it. It is spectacular. The first act might be slow but at least the scene in the big council...
...jonquil-haired socialite charmer in Happy Landing. Usually associated with film work, Miss Owen made her first success in the entertainment business with her appearance on Broadway in The Whole Town's Talking. Afterward she went to Hollywood, played opposite John Gilbert in His Glorious Night, with Lawrence Tibbett in The Rogue Song, with Levis Stone in Strictly Unconventional. She announces as the reason for turning her back on the Golden Calf of Hollywood a need to "help her technique." Miss Owen is not alone among oldtime film folk, some definitely shelved by film producers, who have gone...
...heavily are seeing the advantage of playing on a percentage basis, setting lower minimum fees, then taking a share of the box-office over & above the amount needed for expenses. Paderewski, playing on percentage, will make approximately $250,000 for himself from his 65 concerts this season. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett's cinema success has made him the season's second best money-getter...
Simone Boccanegra has powerful, cumulative moments but it lacks the tunes which have made Rigoletto and Trovatore hurdy-gurdy matter. The plot is a complicated brew of political intrigue, kidnapping and poisoning which few in last week's audience attempted to define. Tibbett absorbed the attention. He sang magnificently, gave great dignity and force to the corsair who rose to be Doge in Genoa, finally died by the hand of his hunchbacked henchman. In one scene where he stopped a brawl and set a curse on the cringing hunchback, he was impressive enough to suggest the Boris Godounov...