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Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, he for whom, some weeks ago, there rolled a volley of such shouts, claps, that a revival of Fahtaff at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, was stopped until he took a curtain call and taxi-drivers without looked at one another in amaze (TIME, Jan. 12), last week gave a concert in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, sang songs old and new. Though the audience did not, like that former one, rise to its feet shouting "Tibbett! Tibbett!" through the confusion of the darkened theatre, it forced him, nevertheless, to deliver seven encores. Again Tibbett acquitted himself with modest...
...singing had melted his makeup. He had taken numerous curtain calls with Scotti. People were still applauding? Doubtless they wanted the bronze-voiced Italian. He did not know that music lovers, cold-eyed elegants, smug critics alike were shouting through the applause, in the darkness of the house, "Tibbett! Tibbett...
There was a scuffle of feet outside the dressing-room door. A call boy-"Mr. Gatti wants you. Immediately." Young Tibbett grabbed his robe. Gatti-Casazza, famed director of the Metropolitan, smilingly pushed him toward the stage. There, alone, he took his curtain call, bowed again and again. Then the opera was permitted to proceed...
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