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Armand Tokatyan, tenor, bit Mario Basiola, baritone, on the ear, one evening last week. That was all right, for they were performing Cavalleria Rusticana at the Metropolitan Opera House and biting was in the stage directions. But Tenor Tokatyan bit the ear of Baritone Basiola so thoroughly that first-aid had to be performed at the end of the scene. Thereafter, Tenor Tokatyan explained that the unintended ferocity of his bite was caused by a nail which stuck up from his shoe into his foot...
...things; what Nature meant.' It is they who bring the power and the fruits of knowledge to the multitude who are content to go through life without thinking and without questioning, who accept fire and the hatching of an egg, the attraction of a feather by a bit of amber, and the stars in their courses as a fish accepts the ocean...
...petulant stenographer's pout and a pair of plump small legs do not carry Nancy Carroll through as the bit of sweetening in "Manhattan Cocktail," the current cinema at the Metropolitan. This movie is shaken up from one of those left-on-the-doorstep scenarios that bring in everything but the fall of Babylon to prove that New York City is a great big mouse trap for boys and girls away from home. It has some cleve post-Ufa photography and a lot of heavy breathing around the hapless Miss Carroll to drum up interest...
...current attraction at the Metropolitan, "The River Pirate" is--a good picture. But it is not so good a picture as it ought to be; it is a bit like an unlighted cigar--all best Havana, but lacks the spark...
...Clara Jacobo promises better things. She has at least, contrary to her predecessors, a mighty voice that fills the far crannies of the opera house. She has had operatic experience, sings and moves with an assurance that projects over the footlights. Her first Leonora quavered occasionally, strayed a bit from the pitch but critics took it all kindly, as part of a debut performance, voted her a useful addition to the Metropolitan roster...