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...costs about $700 to give a recital in Manhattan's Town Hall,* the place where many ambitious young musicians like to start showing what they can do. Few first recitals pay for themselves; the most successful debuts rarely realize more than a few hundred dollars. Tenor James Melton makes much more than that every week singing three or four easy songs over the radio for Coca-Cola. So it was obviously not for his supper that he sang last week in formal Town Hall. In Town Hall the programs put on by earnest young singers are fairly well standardized...
James Melton is first tenor of the Revelers, greatest money-making male quartet. He is not one of the original Revelers. Only two are: Lewis James, the quartet's genial second tenor who comes from Ypsilanti, Mich., is good enough to solo some times with Manhattan's Philharmonic; Wilfred Glenn, square-set, sandy-haired bass who grew up on a Mexican ranch. Pianist Frank Black joined the Revelers in 1925, started making the smooth arrange ments which make Revelers sound better than other male quartets. The two new Revelers still look like good-natured college boys: Baritone Phil...
...allowed the audience to look at them. Grover Whalen, the city's greatest handshaker, pompously read a paper describing the Cause and used all his superlatives to boost the talent which followed: Sopranos Evelyn Herbert and Hulda Lashanska (whose name Mr. Whalen could not pronounce), Violinist Francis MacMillen, Tenor Beniamino Gigli, Composer George Gershwin who carried along a lagging orchestra while he played the piano part of his Rhapsody in Blue...
Lamb's composition is called "Longing", and, in accordance with the rules governing entries for the competition, it is written in English for soprano, alto, tenor, and bass parts, and the time required for its performance is slightly less than six minutes. Lamb is the holder of a Paine travelling fellowship, and is at present studying music in France...
Thus, with parables perverted, did William Bushnell Stout, designer and builder of Ford tri-motor planes, last week in Aviation magazine castigate the airplane industry for its lack of ingenuity and inventiveness. In the same tenor in the same magazine two years ago Designer Stout, long a gadfly of the industry, observed that no plane had been produced as efficient per horsepower as the original Wright kite-like biplane. Illustrating with cartoons from his own drawing board (see cut), he queried: ''What would you think if the designer of a ship put the propeller in front to blow...