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...make this season's Ring performances surpass those of many years: Soprano Frida Leider, whose Briinnhilde last week made startlingly credible the creature half goddess, half woman, which Wagner imagined, dark handsome Contralto Maria Olszewska, who like Frida Leider used to sing with the Chicago Civic Opera; Basso Ludwig Hofmann whose Hagen was a model of malevolence. These three with Tenor Lauritz Melchior, the Siegfried, and Baritone Friedrich Schorr, who last week was Hagen's weak-kneed half-brother Gunther, caused Critic Lawrence Gilman to write in the Herald Tribune: ". . . The score has not been so beautifully...
...eight years ago when the audience suddenly started shouting "Tibbett! Tibbett!" stopping the show for 20 minutes because it liked the young American who sang the part of Ford. He would like to sing Boris Godounov, particularly since his acting in Simone Boccanegra reminded people, not unfavorably, of great Basso Chaliapin...
...Italy, grateful for the farm products which grow on their acres, for an offer just made to them to sing at the Scala in Milan. The News neglected to report that Baritone Vanni-Marcoux came off handsomely by selling Insull stocks when they were still high, that careful old Basso Feodor Chaliapin ignored Insull's advice to invest $100,000 in Chicago utilities, bought Government bonds instead...
...When Basso Feodor Chaliapin came to the U. S. in 1915, 40 newsmen encircled the greatest of singing-actors. Some one asked him about artistic conditions in Russia and Chaliapin at once began a 15-minute soliloquy which no one could understand. He clasped his beautiful hands over his heart, nourished them wildly in the air. Newsmen sat spellbound until he finished, then asked Manager Sol Hurok to translate. Manager Hurok shrugged his shoulders: "Russia? Oh, it's just about the same...
Within five minutes the basso-voiced Premier had the whole Chamber cheering. Gesturing with semaphore swings of his short, thick arms he submitted a brand new French plan, asked for a rousing vote of confidence permitting him to take it to Geneva...