Baritone Lawrence Tibbett sat in his shabby dressing-room at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House one night last week, making himself a nose. Baritone Tibbett's natural nose is no bigger than a grape. Whenever he sings in opera he has to build it up so that it can be seen over the footlights. But last week's nose he wanted to be particularly imposing. It was to be a nose to match trailing velvet robes, an ermine cape and a regal beehive headgear, a nose that would be worthy of the U. S. premiere of a...
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