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...production its 16th piece by a U. S. composer, no one was more surprised than John Laurence Seymour, an obscure California schoolteacher who, with little hope, had submitted In the Pasha's Garden. According to one story the Seymour opera was considered at the request of Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, a fellow-Californian. According to another rumor, the Metropolitan judges drew lots when they found they had no new U. S. work which really pleased them. More likely, In the Pasha's Garden was chosen because it has only one act and thus could be cheaply produced. Whatever...
Next to Singer Lawrence Tibbett, Flyer James Harold Doolittle is the most famed member of the Class of 1914 at Los Angeles' Manual Arts High School. In 1922 he became the first man to cross the U. S. in less than 24 hours. In 1931 he became the first to do it in less than twelve. Last week American Airlines invited him to pilot one of its eight-passenger single-motored Vultees on a non-stop coast-to-coast...
Singers. Busiest of busy singers is Baritone Lawrence Tibbett who, besides his Metropolitan Opera and radio performances, is giving 66 concerts. As he was last year, he will be the season's biggest moneymaker. Baritone John Charles Thomas, now touring California, has 64 dates. Soprano Dusolina Giannini, whose teacher was the late Marcella Sembrich (see below), went sadly to Detroit last week. The increasingly popular Lotte Lehmann sang at the Metropolitan, then in Washington and Princeton. Mary Garden was resting in Manhattan before her last Debussy recital. After a two years' absence big Basso Feodor Chaliapin will come...
...Gatti, hearing them again last week, was almost happy. The cast was the best he could provide. As the Ethiopian Aïda, Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg sang her music with fine regard for line and feeling. As her Egyptian rival, Maria Olszewska made a voluptuous Amneris. Lawrence M. Tibbett was in blackface but everyone recognized him by the power in his voice, the authority of his acting. Giovanni Martinelli sang the "Celeste Aïda" with all his might, clung to the last B flat until the gallery was almost beside itself. To crown the performance Gatti...
...friend's shoulder; Crooner Lanny Ross about to eat a cheese snap; Dancer Clifton Webb holding the arm of Serge Lifar; Polo Player Laddie Sanford on a raft with his wife. Actress Mary Duncan; Mrs. Willie K. Vanderbilt honoring LaFayette; Douglas Fairbanks on a nightclub couch; Lawrence Tibbett in a theatre lobby; Doris Duke drinking champagne; Prince Chlodwig Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst drinking champagne; Cartoonist Tony Sarg drinking whiskey; Max Baer putting cold cream on his face; Cinemactress Dolores Del Rio going upstairs; Mrs. William T. Wetmore going downstairs...