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...convention stayed away. But Seattle's Civic Auditorium was packed anyway, and for three nights. The San Francisco Opera had come to town, with three productions (Manon, Tannhauser, Rigoletto), a cast of 241, including an orchestra and such big-time singers as Grace Moore, Lauritz Melchior, Lawrence Tibbett, Bidu Sayao...
...race horses, opera singers now cover the same circuit every year-the San Francisco opera in October, the Chicago opera in November, Manhattan's Metropolitan from then until March. San Francisco pays the most: $1,500 and up an evening to stars like Soprano Lily Pons, Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, Tenor Lauritz Melchior. And San Francisco opera gets its money's worth. Productions, rehearsed aplenty, are well staged, freshly lighted, altogether less dusty than the Met's. The San Francisco Symphony plays with gusto...
Last week Baritone Tibbett flew to Los Angeles, flew back with the support of the Screen Actors Guild against "encroachment on [A. G. M. A.'s] jurisdiction." If Boss Petrillo continued to act tough, it looked as if the music industry might land...
...union separate from A. F. of M., but not heretofore regarded as its rival, is the American Guild of Musical Artists (also an A. F. of L. affiliate)-1,800 concert musicians, headed by Baritone Lawrence Tibbett. Boss Petrillo singled out A. G. M. A.'s instrumentalists-including Violinists Jascha Heifetz and Efrem Zimbalist, Pianists Vladimir Horowitz and Jose Iturbi-and commanded them to join A. F. of M. by Labor Day. The alternative: they would be barred from radio and recording. The catch: once in A. F. of M. they would be forbidden to play as soloists with...
...Manhattan, Baritone Tibbett went into a huddle with Boss Petrillo, emerged hopeful. Said Mr. Petrillo: "I'll never be unreasonable with anybody. . . . They can call me tough if they want to, but my word is as good as any contract. . . . Everybody calls me the tsar, the chieftain and this and that. What...