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SCREENLAND
A (%ITIC and a TLOW
Lawrence Tibbett, Metropolitan Opera singer, now appearing in "The Rogue's Song," a musical movie romance.
EVERYBODY who achieves success in any art is, by very virtue of this success, a critic. But sometimes an artist isn't a great critic of the art he excels in. For instance, there's Lawrence Tibbett.
Tibbett is one of the greatest operatic baritones in the world today. His name is known wherever music is. And he says he's a good critic of plowing!
He got his experience early, for he was born on a farm near Bakersfield, California, at the lower end of the great San Jeaquin Valley. The farms which in his day were plowed over, and yielded raisin, grapes, or grain, are now a forest of towering oil derricks, and black gold is hauled from the once pastoral scene where raisin trees blossomed and onions grew in truck gardens.
And, just as the old farm metamorphosed into the hiding place of unsuspected millions, so did the farmer boy. He studied music, sang on the stage, won his place in opera and triumphed. Not long ago he paid a flying visit to his old home town, en route East on a concert tour. They turned the school children out to strew his path with flowers — children from the very school, among others, where he used to be 'kept after school' when he didn't study his lessons. Such is fame!
Lawrence Tibbett, Opera Star in Talking Pictures, knows his Onions and Raisins
By
Myrene Wentworth
Tibbett and Catherine Dale Owen in one of their dramatic love scenes in "The Rogue's Song."
Tibbett, conquering the citadel of grand opera, is now storming another citadel. He is starring in talking pictures, widening a breach in the walls for other singers to follow him. He is the vanguard of opera in the new art of the talking screen.
At the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios he is acting and singing his way through "Rogue's Song" as a swashbuck' ling gypsy lover. He sings songs by Lehar and by Herbert Stothart, riding his horse in colorful costume and through colorful adventure.
Great pains are being taken with this production, for it means a great deal to the screen. Lionel Barrymore is directing it. Catherine Dale Owen, beauty from the New York stage and recent leading lady for John Gilbert, is his heroine. Hcdda Hopper, Marion Schilling, and other celebrities of the screen and stage are playing with him. And incidentally they didn't engage Tibbett jus' as a singer, for he is a superb actor as well.
When news came to the studios that the opera star was on his way, studio attaches and (Continued on page 95)