Word: swarthout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Romance in the Dark (Paramount) is like most other attempts to hitch the Hollywood wagon to a grand opera star. Its heroine is brunette, oval-faced Mezzo-Soprano Gladys Swarthout, prettiest and most adaptable of the cinema-minded opera singers. Most singing stars by this time walk blindfolded through the story of the girl who has to submit to subterfuge, disguise and heartache to get her chance. Miss Swarthout's version of this old story is pleasantly ingenuous. But with aging John Barrymore pitting his serrated profile against John Boles's open-mouthed full face in a battle...
When Romance in the Dark was in the making, considerable fuss was made over a sequence in which Singer Swarthout was pelted with tomatoes by an opera audience. Previewers greeted the scene with no enthusiasm, and it was cut out. Now the only tomato thrown squishes over the Latin features of Tenor Fortunio Bona-Nava...
...salaries and agreeable working conditions, is as much a professional fraternity as a union. Such a group is the American Guild of Musical Artists, formed last year as a result of a golfing conversation between Baritone Lawrence Tibbett and Baritone Frank Chapman, the personable, amiable husband of Contralto Gladys Swarthout (TIME, June 8, 1936). Tibbett is still president. The Guild, whose aim was frankly to protect the prestige rather than the purses of its members, signed up 400 of the elite of U. S. opera singers and concert artists, everyone from Richard Bonelli (made second vice president) to Paul Whiteman...
...ensuing week is singularly lacking in musical events. The Boston Symphony is on tour, treating New York with the latest Berg Violin Concerto which Dr. Koassevitzky presented here last week-end, and Symphony Hall will be empty except for Sunday afternoon when Gladys Swarthout, mezzo-soprano of opera, radio, and motion picture fame, will give a recital...
...York Times as "lovely to look at and heaven to hear". However that may be, she has chosen a program which runs the gamut of musical history and comes out rather breathless at the end with a "Wild Song" by Olive Durgan. The recital should give Miss Swarthout ample occasion to prove the abilities so lavishly accorded her by reviewers...