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...since he slipped into his father's big boots a half century ago. For his jubilee performance he chose to conduct excerpts from Fidelio and from Die Meistersinger, for which he made his own English translation. On a different occasion critics would have commented lengthily on Baritone Lawrence Tibbett who was stalwartly enacting his first Hans Sachs. But the evening was Walter Damrosch's and the time one for testimonials. Applause reached its peak after Mrs. August Belmont had spoken of his "unsurpassed influence in developing among the American people a love for great music." Excessively modest...
Last week's burlesque, staged on the eve of the Company's departure for Boston, showed various ways opera might be enlivened and perhaps made to pay. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett crawled inside the Siegfried dragon and mourned because "no cigaret or corset ever asked me to endorse it." Coming events were then advertised in lurid cinemafashion. Tosca's name was changed to "Hungry Passions." Rigoletto became "The Hunchback in the Harem." For the sake of the tired businessman, Wagner's Nibelungen Ring was whisked off in less than two minutes...
Last week it was Lotte Lehmann's turn to exhibit a Tosca who was a simple, genuine woman, expertly tender in her scenes with Cavaradossi, wildly furious when she murdered Scarpia, crouched gloatingly over his body. The Scarpia was Baritone Lawrence Tibbett and it was his big chance to add another telling impersonation to his Simone Boccanegra and his Emperor Jones. But Tibbett was no great villain. He made himself a bigger nose but his make-up in general was unworthy of an actor with cinema training. His big voice boomed and he used brute force in his tussle...
...personable a singer as his most serious Hollywood rival, Lawrence Tibbett, Nelson Eddy arrived in cinema by an even more circuitous route. Born in Providence, R. I., the son of a manufacturer of equipment for submarines, he made his debut as a soprano in the choir of Grace Church. After a grammar & night-school education, he went to work, first as a telephone operator in an iron works factory, later in the art department of the Philadelphia Press, stayed with that paper, the Evening Ledger and Bulletin for five years as reporter and copyreader. Later he took to writing advertising...
...feelings in contrast to the words they sang. Perhaps this scheme was too subtle for the literal-minded. The music was never unpleasant, but for 50 minutes it ambled along like a monotonous introduction to something which never began. Unfortunately for the libretto, the Pasha was played by Lawrence Tibbett whose diction is so clear that the audience understood every word he sang. And fortunately for John Laurence Seymour a Manhattan audience will applaud any new opera. For the occasion the delighted composer had been granted leave of absence from the California State Junior College where he teaches dramatics...