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First sign of Juilliard influence was the appointment of Herbert Witherspoon, old-time Metropolitan basso and later a member of the Juilliard teaching staff, as Gatti's successor. General Manager Witherspoon had worn his title for two weeks when he dropped dead of coronary thrombosis. Tenor Edward Johnson, long a popular favorite, stepped immediately into the post. Confronting him were union difficulties, many an important contract, many that had not been signed...
Johnson was no stranger to the Metropolitan. For 13 years he had kept his eminence there as an important romantic tenor, created more roles than any other tenor alive. Romantic ladies still heave when they recall his dreamy Peter Ibbetson, his wistful Pelleas, his tender Romeo. Forthwith he settled down to the more excruciating task of playing Romeo to the box office, the Opera Board and the biggest congress of temperament known...
Other shifts: Jean de Reszke & Lauritz Melchior, from baritone to tenor. Dramatic Soprano Lilli Lehmann, like Galli-Curci, began as a coloratura...
...jobbers like Vahlsing and Relias get from $1 to $2 a bundle for table trees, two or three feet high, which come in bundles of eight. Slightly larger trees, six or four to a bundle, bring up to $3. Tenor twelve-foot trees, "singles," are sold for about $2.50 each. Tallest trees are called "church trees" and bring as much as $1.25 a foot. These prices are usually doubled at retail...
Whatever happens to the track teams this winter there will be plenty of spirit judging at least by the tenor of the talks in Dillon Field House yesterday afternoon before over 100 candidates for the Varsity and Freshman insignia...