Word: singing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Porter, the scenery de-signed by Yaleman Peter Arno. Unfortunately, there are so many stars in the show that most of them do not appear as often as the audience might wish. Dancer Ann Pennington has only two small numbers. Hope Williams, appearing for the first time in musicomedy, sings but one song. But svelte Frances Williams ably croons "Go Into Your Dance," "I'm Getting Ready for You," "The Great Indoors," all of which are excellent. An abundance of rowdy comedy is supplied by Clayton, Jackson & Durante, who have some new material to add to their ever-welcome...
...genius for music, told him to find another libretto, a lovestory, and try again. Camille came to his mind because he knew of a similar tragedy which involved two students in a Chicago shorthand school. "But Camille," Mary Garden objected, "is French. You could not expect me to sing it in English." Hamilton Forrest forthwith went to France, learned the language, studied with Composer Maurice Ravel, wrote his opera and had it accepted by the opera company headed by the light & power tycoon whose errands he used...
...Each month TIME notes the noteworthy * Opera: Siegfried, by the London Symphony under Albert Coates and Robert Heger, the Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra under Leo Blech, the Vienna Staatsoper Orchestra under Karl Alwin and famed Wagnerian Singers (Victor, $15)-Tenor Lauritz Melchior, who looks like any fat boy when he sings Siegfried at Bayreuth and Manhattan's Metropolitan, proves an excellent phonograph artist. Contralto Maria Olszewska and Soprano Frida Leider, expert members of the Chicago Civic Opera, sing Erda and Briinnhilde. Die Meistersinger, the aria Wahn! Wahn! (Victor, $2)- As Cobbler Hans Sachs, Baritone Friedrich Schorr advances Wagner...
...acts, but he falters in the finale when he gets his first real chance. Richard Hale plays the bad man with extreme unction. There is a chorus that hums throughout the cornfields and cheers the cowboys at their crap game. They are hard to explain, but they sing well enough and are pleasant to watch when the interest sags...
...parody of 'Hiawatha' by Lewis Carroll, and other esoteric nonsense-verse. The Dunster House Matron of Morsels will entertain as black-face comedienne, in her inimitable interpretations of 'mammy' songs. By popular request the Senior Tutor will cast aside academic dignity as a concession to the holiday season, and sing that famous and lachrymose lyric of the frigid Forties, entitled 'Father's a Drunkard and Mother's Dead, or Poor Little Bessie's Plea for Bread...