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Seven Philadelphia harpists played one night, dressed angelwise in flowing georgette robes with snoods around their heads. The Twin City Opera Company gave Rigoletto. University students gave Madame Butterfly. John Erskine, Harold Bauer, Rudolph Ganz, Ernest Hutcheson and Henri Deering played the piano. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett and Soprano Florence Macbeth (from Mankato, Minn.) sang. Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge sponsored chamber music by the Gordon String Quartet. Twenty-five amateur choruses performed and an orchestra came from San Antonio, Tex., the players all in their early teens. Delegates who took a few hours off to buy presents to take home heard...
...humored people chuffed out of Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station one morning this week. The Metropolitan Opera Company, its future still undecided,* was on the way to Baltimore. There pretty Lily Pons would exhibit her clear, high trills in Rigpletto. Graceful Lucrezia Bori would sing in Pagliacci. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett would stain himself brown and enact Emperor Jones. The Company's famed Wagnerians would sing in Tristan und Isolde...
Classical singer (male) Tibbett...
...Neither interest in Soprano Leider nor Baritone Tibbett's success in Emperor Jones (TIME, Jan. 16) has been enough to keep the Metropolitan out of the financial plight in which it found itself last spring. Despite reduced salaries and a shortened season a $400,000 deficit had directors wondering last week whether to disband or attempt drastic reorganization. Most credible rumor: a twelve weeks' season in New York might be combined with visits to other cities which would be called upon for backing. Louis Eckstein, Ravinia's patron and newest of the Metropolitan's directors, would...
...Companions of Mrs. Tibbett at last week's premiere were Mr. & Mrs. Harvey S. Firestone Jr. *Daughter of retired banker Edgar L. Marston of Manhattan. She was married twice before, to Robert J. Adams, son of the chewing-gum tycoon, and to John Clark Burgard of San Francisco...