Life, 1913-04-10 · page 43 of 48
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This page mixes entertainment coverage with period advertisements. The main content is "Life's Musical Calendar"—a weekly listing of New York opera and concert performances at venues like the Metropolitan Opera House and Aeolian Hall, covering April 8-13. The calendar reviews standard operatic repertoire (Verdi, Wagner, Meyerbeer) with witty, dismissive commentary typical of Life's satirical voice. For example, Meyerbeer's "Huguenots" is called "dreary" and "an endless exposition." The advertisements reveal what mattered to affluent 1920s readers: the new Grand Central Terminal (promoting the "20th Century Limited" overnight train), Dixon's graphite lubricants for cars, and Redfern corsets—positioned as fashion's gold standard. The "Speed Kings of Motordom" ad for Dixon's lubricants appears to feature racing drivers, though specific identities are unclear from the image. This is primarily a culture/lifestyle page for wealthy, urban readers interested in opera and modern transportation.
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Life’s Musical Calendar Tuesday, April 8, Metropolitan Opera special performance of Verdi's designed possibly to atone for ge neglect of this popular opera in the season's regular repertoire. Aeolian Hall-—Last concert of the Kneisel Quartet, assisted by Leo Schulz, first. ‘cellist. of the Philharmonic Or: chestra. Wednesday, April 9, Metropolitan Opera House.—Wagner’s bourgeois com- chy. * Die. Meistersinger.” Thursday, April 10, Metropolitan Opera House (Afternoon).—Double bill at popular. prices: The traditional com- bination of “Cavalleria Rusticana” (in- cluding the Intermezzo) and “ Pagliacci” including the Prologue, “Vesti la giubba,” and all the other little tunes in Which the. audience regularly accom- panies the singers). Ev ae Humperdinck's fairy story,“ Konigskinder,” a rather com- plicated and incoherent plot expressed in fnusic which is refreshingly intelligible. Friday, April 11, Metropolitan Opera House-—Wagner’s sentimentally religious drama of the Wartburg, “* Tannhauser,” containing several of the, great master’s SSnost popular selections.” deolion Hall (Afternoon).—Margaret Barrell in one of the last song recitals of the year. (Evening).—Jacques Kasner in a vio- lig. recital of similar importance, ‘Saturday, April 12, Metropolitan Opera House (Afternoon)-—Meyerbeer's dreary 2 “Huguenots,” an endless exposition of : HE new Grand historical events centering in the massa- a Vesey inee 5 Central Terminal cre of St. Bartholomew's Eve, with an ceeasional echo of Luther's hymn, "A f : | ie 73 is the New York City Mighty Fortress,” which not only assures the audience of the religious character i “2 home of the 20" CenturyLimited the overnight train be- tween the East and the West— ‘‘Water Level Route, You Can Sleep.” “Lv. NewYork 2.45 p.m. Lv. Chicago 12.40 p.m. Boston 12.30p.m. Ar.Boston 11.5Sa.m. Ar.Chicago 9.4Sa.m. Ar.NewYork 9.40a.m. DIXO Graphite Lubricants Information Bureau, centre of Ask your dealer for DIXON'S GRAPH. ]] ||] Concourse, Newo Grand Central LINES ITE GREASE, No. 677—for differen- tals and transmissions. htwill pay you to send us name and model of your ¢ files bekiet No. 44° Labpeating the f th br 1 t tidot: : , : ° ra, but also acts as an an letustell youwhatthe “Speed Kings’ say. to the deadly. dullness of the Meyer: Redfern— 40S. DIXON CRUCIBLE CO. beerian strains. On this occasion the lis in 1827 | chief function of the “ Huguenots” is | A name that when passed down Est i o a vehicle for ht derrey City New Jersey fo met ago vehicle, £05 be coloratura in history has stood for the best (Evening).—Popular price perform- corset of the period. A name ONE HUNDRED AND ONE DAYS ance of “Madam Butterfly,” a perfect with a record—not an unknown UNDRED AND ONE DAYS example of the technique of pathos. ” Sunday, April 13, Metropolitan Opera corset. A name that stands for Sexe travel through Burope ceptionally attra igh EA vi a . . * Sey eran ereate Furope ove am exeegoaty guunctive | House. he first appearance of Macsteo the best in fashion making— “complete. “Apply to FRANK C. CLARK, Times Bidg., N.Y. Toscanini as a symphonic conductor in a America, with a programme whose ghief Redfern eature will be Beethoven's Ninth Sym- Saeu UNDERGROUND phony, with the operatic chorus assist- Found where all geod = GARBAGE RECEIVER ing. The greatest example of Teutonic certste are :setd: $3.50 to $15.00 xo Open wth the NO LITTER NO ODORS ei ented b Tali. ‘The Warner Bros, Co. foot: closes genius, presented by an Italian director ew yen Were : Sem tery oot closes fteelt. Clean and sanitary. Sold direct | Bed s preponderatiog Latin group of New Yurk—Chicago—San Francisco CH ney, Guaranteed. Circular i ATEPRENSON, Mfr., 46 Farrar Street. T.snn, Mass, singers. oR comicbooks.com