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Added to the primary ingredients in the current opus are: Lauritz Melchior as a tubby (what else?), good-hearted-but-tending-to-be-grouchy-at-first baritone; long (vintage 1900) skirts; an opera rustled up by California technicians from odd bits of orchestral music by Lizst and Mendelssohn and sung...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 7/12/1946 | See Source »

Proud of its culture is Cincinnati, "Queen City of the West." Part of its cultural tradition, for 20 summers, has been opera in a pavilion in the Cincinnati Zoo, where shrilling peacocks sometimes compete with the piccolos, roaring lions double in bass. Last Sunday night Bizet's Carmen opened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cincinnati's Carmens | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

Instead of choosing to come out in New York along with her classmates from Miss. Hewitt's exclusive school, Cobina at the age of 16 started to make her way in the entertainment world. "Personally I think the present debutant system is ridiculous," she exclaimed. "In the old days when...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ritz Roof Alters Cobina's Opinion | 3/9/1940 | See Source »

...Suzanne de La Salle Chambers Hiteman, 36, French-born divorcee; he for the first time, she for the third; in Manhattan. At Glamor Boy Clark's coming-of-age party last November, celebrated in Manhattan's 21 Club, Glamor Girl Brenda Frazier and scores of other debutantes drank his health...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 7, 1939 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

Last month lion-jawed Pianist Moriz Rosenthal celebrated the soth anniversary of his U. S. debut by playing a special gold-lacquered piano in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall (TIME, Nov. 21). Forgotten at the time by most Manhattan concertgoers was the fact that Pianist Rosenthal's U. S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Unannounced Anniversary | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

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