Word: tibbetts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Firsts & Fans. Though Lux Theater is careful not to offend, it has its moments of daring. Lux "broke ground in the radio field" by casting such opera stars as Lawrence Tibbett, Lily Pons and Helen Jepson in acting roles. The show boldly signed Radio Comics Jack Benny and Burns & Allen for "their first dramatic parts." And it induced Ronald Colman and Shirley Temple, "long holdouts from radio," to make their debuts...
...more of a surprise to Manhattan critics. Since Canadian-born Edward Johnson announced his retirement in 1950, they had been murmuring such names as Lawrence Tibbett, Lauritz Melchior, even Billy Rose as his successor. The New York Times's highbrow Olin Downes suggested that some people would consider it "time an American were appointed to head America's greatest operatic institution." The nobrow Daily News fired off an editorial: "Fair Shake for American Talent...
General Manager Edward Johnson of the Metropolitan Opera, pressed by Atlanta reporters to name his successor after he retires next year, obliged with a list that included Lawrence Tibbett, Lauritz Melchior and Billy Rose, who loves to give widely syndicated free advice...
With All Due Respect Lawrence Tibbett, now in his 26th year of baritoning for the Metropolitan Opera, was given a little backstage party and a few handsome knickknacks in honor of the first 25 years. Still in costume from Benjamin Britten's gloomy Peter Grimes (see cut), Larry told his coworkers: "An expression of love from your colleagues is the dearest and most stimulating thing in the world. Now look at what you've done! Tonight you've started me off on another 25 years...
...Send me cigars-they are my food," Finnish Composer Jean Sibelius had said. This week, U.S. admirers had sent him 83 boxes of cigars (plus two humidors) for his 83rd birthday. Among the donors: Tallulah Bankhead, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Carmen Miranda, Thomas J. Watson, Sergei Koussevitzky, Marian Anderson, Lawrence Tibbett. Said a spokesman for the National Arts Foundation, which is handling the collection: "We intend to keep Sibelius in cigars for life...