Music: Modest Tibbett

Baritone Lawrence Tibbett, he for whom, some weeks ago, there rolled a volley of such shouts, claps, that a revival of Fahtaff at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, was stopped until he took a curtain call and taxi-drivers without looked at one another in amaze (TIME, Jan. 12), last week gave a concert in Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, sang songs old and new. Though the audience did not, like that former one, rise to its feet shouting "Tibbett! Tibbett!" through the confusion of the darkened theatre, it forced him, nevertheless, to deliver seven...

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