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...certain to bring its makers (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ) substantial profits. It was notable because the 100% technicolor (see col. 3) was an improvement on previous color films. Too, it fills any huge auditorium with much the best voice yet known to cinemaddicts, the voice of Grand Opera Baritone Lawrence Tibbett. Also, it gives the voice a volume never before transmitted through the microphone except in the case of the noises emitted by Al (Sonny Boy) Jolson...
...vaguely Russian, whose sister is unaccountably ruined by a prince. Bandit murders prince, drags princess of whom he is heavily enamoured through the mountrains. This princess is a blonde new to pictures named Catherine Dale Owen, whose contribution is an unnecessarily sour look while being sung to. Best shot: Tibbett, after he is captured, bellowing a song while floggers flay his naked torso in the presence of the princess...
...happier last week. Jeritza and he took a dozen bows together. He kissed her hand. She kissed his cheek. The other players did not count. As Forty-Niners they were patently masquerading. Tenor Giovanni Martinelli (Dick Johnson) had suffered and sobbed in the best Italian manner. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett (Jack Rance) was more credible, but looked funny in an Abraham Lincoln makeup. It was Jeritza who raised the performance above incongruity, saved the plot from appearing like any cinematic melodrama. She made comedy in the first act out of dishwashing, in the second out of tight slippers and a "company...
Lawrence Mervil Tibbett, lean, native U. S. baritone of the Metropolitan Opera Company, was last week arrested for reckless driving in Los Angeles. Next day, still jolly, he stood outside a cafe, squirted a hose on the cafe manager's automobile and on passersby, was fined $25 for disturbing the peace...
...Arbor, Mich., May 22-25, 36th annual event under the auspices of the University of Michigan; programs furnished by the Chicago Symphony under Frederick Stock. Soloists include Sophie Braslau, Richard Crooks, Richard Bonelli, Edith Mason, Lawrence Tibbett, Efrem Zimbalist, Josef Hofmann. Evanston, III., May 27-June 1, 21st annual Chicago North Shore Festival. Orchestral favorites, a few novelties, the Bach B minor Mass comprise the programs, interpreted by artists including Cyrena van Gordon, Efrem Zimbalist. Josef Hofmann, Edith Mason, Alice Mock. Other May festivals are at Emporia, Kan., Bangor, Me., Springfield and Lynn, Mass., Keene, N. H., Newark...