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...Metropolitan's Mélisande, pretty Helen Jepson, in a wig as long as the locks of the famed Seven Sutherland Sisters, was a stolid princess of whom Debussy would never have said, as he did of Mary Garden, that hers was "the gentle voice I had been hearing within me, faltering in its tenderness. . . ." The Metropolitan orchestra, noodling along under Wagnerite Erich Leinsdorf, only occasionally set forth Debussy's score in its full glow. But Tenor Cathelat, a good actor and a good manager of a middling voice, captivated New York's Debussyites - who were...
...antiquated, marble-topped washstand, glowers at the dead flies in the basin-shaped chandeliers, and applies his grease paint. In exactly 20 minutes he is dressed as the young Siegfried, his noble paunch encased in a deer skin, his stubby grey hair covered with a luxuriant blond wig. Thus accoutred, he lights a big black cigar and trundles down to the wings, where the waiting Kleinchen inspects him from top to toe, sees that his massive legs are properly powdered and that his hunting horn is in place. At the murmuring strains of Wagner's prelude, Melchior throws away...
...Weems was an itinerant parson and book agent, pioneer in fictionized biography. Unauthenticated is his pious anecdote of young George Washington and the cherry tree. Artist Wood has the worthy parson drawing back a cherry-red, cherry-edged curtain to show a tiny, Stuart-faced Washington, complete with powdered wig and all the attributes of father of his country...
...very good, cannot dance, has only a vague idea of what is going on, is cheerfully disparaged by the populace, and is judged by historians to have been extremely successful. So it was when Ben Franklin popped up in Paris wearing a fur cap instead of a wig. So it was when General Schenck (less successfully) "became the lion of the hour when he introduced draw poker into London society." And so it was last week when U. S. foreign policy and the U. S. State Department made plenty of news...
...when Martinelli's voice was at its sweetest, Metropolitan directors always chose a throatier Teuton for the job. Last week at the Chicago Opera, 54-year-old Veteran Martinelli finally got his chance. Playing opposite buxom Kirsten Flagstad's bosom, his white hair covered with a blond wig, Tenor Martinelli sang his part without a misplaced guttural. But between towering Soprano Flagstad and the booming orchestra led by Flagstad's private accompanist, Edwin McArthur, Martinelli's long song of love was pretty well drowned out. To cap all, just before the final curtain Soprano Flagstad took...