Word: toreadors
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...extraordinary second act of Carmen, was over, the Fine Arts officials beamed and congratulated Conductor Vladimir Shavitch for reducing opera's excess baggage, putting it within the reach of the masses. For in place of a cumbersome chorus and orchestra, Conductor Shavitch used sound-film. When the Toreador Song rang out powerfully, only 16 were singing it from the stage. In celluloid, the Moscow Grand Opera Chorus made them sound like...
...Crawford was frankly out to cater to his audience. He distributed a list of 100 songs, offered to sing any 14 that were most in demand. His repertory was impressively wide, ranging from Brahms lieder to Smoke Gets in Your Eyes. Three of the loudest requests were for the Toreador's song from Carmen; De Glory Road, now popular because of Baritone Lawrence Tibbett; and The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, a Crawford composition...
...read death in the cards, gave the toujours la mart all its tragic implications. Most debatable costume was a slinky black velvet affair with a top like a bullfighter's jacket. This she chose for the final act as a symbol of her submission to Escamillo, the toreador...
...fumbles when he clutches at the crossbar. Comic high spot is a mad pianist in "The Concert Party." A lacquer-haired caricature of Negro Singer Josephine Baker, star of a "Little Tropical Revue," wiggles and shakes menacingly. In "The Bullfight," a wilder burlesque than the others, a hollow-eyed toreador fliply kills the bull with super-human mag nificence. Plump, beaming Impresario Vittorio Podrecca adapted his Piccoli ("The little ones") from traditional Italian marionets, hates to have them called marionets or puppets. Charles Dillingham first brought him and his little ones to Manhattan in 1923 when they failed dismally. Last...
...winged lake flies, called "Yankee soldiers" in Canada), but well pleased were they, especially with Mary Garden; Garden escaping the guards at the end of the first act. dashing through the Spanish village with the whole company at her heels; Garden clicking her fan; Garden driving in with Toreador Escamillo (Baritone Mostyn Thomas) in an open barouche with a spanking pair of white horses; Garden being brayed at by a restless little donkey...