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...ludicrous circus manager in The Bartered Bride. In Rigoletto the swashbuckling assassin was Baritone John Gurney of Jamestown, N. Y., who took up music after Harvard Business School. Marie's mother in the Smetana opera was Lucelle Browning from Durham, N. C., a product of the Juilliard School of Music...
...prodigy. Practicing irked her. But she was so naturally musical, showed such talent for the piano that when time came for her to go off to school she was sent to the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. There she discovered the voice that won her successive scholarships from the Juilliard Musical Foundation, months of sound study in Germany, engagements at the Berlin Staatsoper and at the Paris Opéra-Comique. New Yorkers saw her last week as a slender, graceful young woman of 32 who had so thoroughly absorbed the role that there was scarcely a detail left unfinished...
...There were two Juilliard trustees already on the Metropolitan board: Lawyer Allen Wardwell and Frederic A. Juilliard, nephew of the late Augustus...
...Juilliard who left $14,000,000 to music. The Metropolitan's board chairman, Paul Drennan Cravath, is a director of the Juilliard School of Music, as is Cornelius N. Bliss, chairman of the Metropolian's executive committee. Now the Opera must listen to three more Juilliard men: President John Erskine of the Juilliard School of Music, Dean Ernest Hutchinson, Lawyer John Morris Perry. Besides there is a new "management committee" to advise Edward Johnson. Its members: John Erskine, Allen Wardwell, Cornelius Bliss and Soprano Bori. Commenting on the Metropolitan situation in general, wise old William J. Henderson...
...blacks in the cast proved perfect actors. Crown is strapping Warren Coleman. Flashy, irrepressible Sportin' Life is John W. Bubbles of the dance team. Buck & Bubbles. Bess is Anne Wiggins Brown, daughter of a Baltimore physician, who learned to sing at the Juilliard School of Music. Todd Duncan, a rich-voiced baritone who heads the music department at Howard University, plays Porgy in such a way as to suggest that some day he might be a candidate for grand opera...