Music: Fame & Fortune

Baritone Lawrence Mervil Tibbett coined commercial reward for having turned cinemactor, signed a contract to broadcast 13 Monday evenings for Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. His fee: $4,000 a week, beginning Jan. 4.

Wife of the onetime Ambassador to Japan and very rich, Mrs. Larz Anderson finished the libretto of an opera, Marina, to be produced in Boston, Jan. 11. Music was written by Composer Grace Warner (Mrs. Moses H.) Gulesian.

Jack & the Beanstalk, the opera by Writer John Erskine and Composer Louis Gruenberg, pleased children and grown-ups so much that it was...

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