Word: tibbett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baritone Lawrence Tibbett sat in his shabby dressing-room at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House one night last week, making himself a nose. Baritone Tibbett's natural nose is no bigger than a grape. Whenever he sings in opera he has to build it up so that it can be seen over the footlights. But last week's nose he wanted to be particularly imposing. It was to be a nose to match trailing velvet robes, an ermine cape and a regal beehive headgear, a nose that would be worthy of the U. S. premiere...
...between glass. Pianist Vladimir Horowitz always has a picture of Liszt in the artists' room, Violinist Yehndi Menuhin a bronze head of Toscanini. Pianist José Iturbl goes to every concert with an apple and a clean collar. During intermission he eats the apple and changes his collar. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett wears a comical silver rabbit when he sings, Tenor Gigli a little gold bell his daughter once pinned on his pajamas. Violinist Jascha Heifetz hates to admit that he is superstitious about his ring with the Ceylon ruby but Soprano Lucrezia Bori is not one bit ashamed of the little...
Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, sponsored by Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. Mondays...
...Smedley Darlington Butler. U. S. M. C., retired; and Lieut. John Wehle, U. S. M. C. Engaged. Trevor Charles Stamp, M. D., second son of Sir Josiah Stamp, economist and director of the Bank of England; and Frances D. Bosworth, cousin of Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes. Married. Lawrence Mervil Tibbett, cinema baritone, onetime member of the Metropolitan Opera Company; and Mrs. Jennie Marston Burgard of Burlingame, Calif.; in Manhattan. It was his second marriage, her third. Married, Joan Hamilton, stepdaughter of Cosmo Hamilton, author, playwright; and Roger de la Vasselais of Manhattan; in Manhattan. Married, John A. Roebling, 68, only...
Baritone Lawrence Mervil Tibbett coined commercial reward for having turned cinemactor, signed a contract to broadcast 13 Monday evenings for Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. His fee: $4,000 a week, beginning...