Word: tibbett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Baritone Lawrence Tibbett appeared as Tenor Crook's persuasive, grey-haired father, contributed the best singing of the evening. The American Ballet furnished sprightly dancers for the lavish ballroom scenes. There were fresh new settings by Designer Jonel Jorgulesco. And a young U. S. singer, plump, dark-haired Thelma Votipka, sang confidently but had little chance to prove herself...
...financially to give up illustrating and strike out as a painter of celebrities. Since then he has heard Benito Mussolini play the violin, has dined with Marie of Rumania, has made recognizable likenesses of Crown Prince Umberto of Italy, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Speaker Rainey, Will Hays, Lawrence Tibbett, Amelia Earhart, hundreds of others. Always such organizations as the Red Cross, the Warm Springs Foundation, the Will Rogers Memorial can count on a free Christy poster for their campaigns. They are all practically the same: a slim, toothsome young lady in Greek draperies, arms outstretched, welcoming the world...
...negative qualities to recommend it. Its screen play, by Bess Meredyth and George Marion Jr., is unfailingly light-hearted and literate. Its score, though a potpourri of operatic and concert-stage favorites, is well chosen. Its cast includes Alice Brady, Virginia Bruce and Luis Alberni. Its star is Lawrence Tibbett, whose baritone voice is still the best vocal instrument the talking screen has presented to the U. S. public and who in this picture, his first in four years, is heard to better advantage than ever before...
...Seville, The Road to Mandalay and Glory Road in plain clothes, excerpts from Faust and Carmen, all sung by its affable, grape-nosed star with grace, good humor and superb enthusiasm. No better indication of the civilized qualities of the picture could be given than its adroit conclusion. Tibbett, harassed by the strain of running an opera company whose "angel" has deserted it, comes out to sing the prolog to Pagliacci. He does so in grand style to ringing applause from both the audience in the picture and, usually, the audience at it. Then,, instead of going on into what...
Died, Edgar Lewis Marston, 75, retired Los Angeles banker, broker, oil promoter, co-founder of Texas & Pacific Coal & Oil Co. and longtime member of Blair & Co. (later Bancamerica-Blair Corp.), father-in-law of Singer Lawrence Tibbett; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles...