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...Cecil B. De Mille cinema. Marigold was called upon to make two entrances in a floral cart, like Miss America in an Atlantic City parade. Swedish Goeta Ljungberg did as well as she could by a rôle for which she was badly miscast. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett as Wrestling came nearest to saving the performance. He struggled bravely to make the audience sympathize with the soul-wracked bigot. He sang richly, made words intelligible. Sample from the dream scene...
...When rich and famed, Tibbett got a divorce." The fact is that Grace Tibbett sued for and received the divorce...
...Grace Mackay Smith . . . worked in a Los Angeles realtor's office so that Tibbett could go East to study." The fact is that Tibbett's venture East was made possible by the generosity of a Los Angeles businessman who loaned him a sizable sum of money for the purpose...
...unfair inference of the footnote is that Grace Tibbett, as a poor girl, worked to make her husband "rich and famed" and that "rich and famed," Tibbett ungratefully cast her off with perhaps not so much as a "thank you." To present a more complete picture, the footnote should have added that Mr. Tibbett has made generous financial provision for his former wife, and that in the journey from poverty to riches, he also brought Grace Tibbett from poverty and obscurity to comparative affluence and prominence...
...Onetime Accompanist to Lawrence Tibbett...