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...songs, offered to sing any 14 that were most in demand. His repertory was impressively wide, ranging from Brahms lieder to Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. Three of the loudest requests were for the Toreador's song from Carmen; De Glory Road, now popular because of Baritone Lawrence Tibbett; and The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a Crawford composition...
Baritone Lawrence Tibbett appeared as Tenor Crook's persuasive, grey-haired father, contributed the best singing of the evening. The American Ballet furnished sprightly dancers for the lavish ballroom scenes. There were fresh new settings by Designer Jonel Jorgulesco. And a young U. S. singer, plump, dark-haired Thelma Votipka, sang confidently but had little chance to prove herself...
...last season. Outstanding contraltos are Karin Branzell, Doris Doe, Gladys Swarthout, Cyrena Van Gordon, Rose Bampton, Kathryn Meisle and Marion Telva, who has been badly missed since she left the Metropolitan in 1931. Outstanding tenors: Lauritz Melchior, Paul Althouse, Giovanni Martinelli. Charles Hackett. Nino Martini. The baritones: Lawrence Tibbett, John Charles Thomas, Friedrich Schorr, Richard Bonelli. The bassos: Ezio Pinza, Ludwig Hofmann, Emanuel List, Leon Rothier...
...financially to give up illustrating and strike out as a painter of celebrities. Since then he has heard Benito Mussolini play the violin, has dined with Marie of Rumania, has made recognizable likenesses of Crown Prince Umberto of Italy, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Speaker Rainey, Will Hays, Lawrence Tibbett, Amelia Earhart, hundreds of others. Always such organizations as the Red Cross, the Warm Springs Foundation, the Will Rogers Memorial can count on a free Christy poster for their campaigns. They are all practically the same: a slim, toothsome young lady in Greek draperies, arms outstretched, welcoming the world...
...Seville, The Road to Mandalay and Glory Road in plain clothes, excerpts from Faust and Carmen, all sung by its affable, grape-nosed star with grace, good humor and superb enthusiasm. No better indication of the civilized qualities of the picture could be given than its adroit conclusion. Tibbett, harassed by the strain of running an opera company whose "angel" has deserted it, comes out to sing the prolog to Pagliacci. He does so in grand style to ringing applause from both the audience in the picture and, usually, the audience at it. Then,, instead of going on into what...