Added Attraction

Noisy, frizzy-haired Eva Tanguay was headliner at the gaudy Metropolitan cinemansion in Boston last week. Two Kinds of Women showed loose living in a Manhattan penthouse (see p. 25). A yodler, a tap dancer and a funnyman did clipped, automatic turns but there was still an "added attraction," sparsely advertised. After the newsreel the curtain went up again, showed a dumpy, henna-haired old lady standing perched on a platform, her immense bosom shining with sequins as the Old Lady hesitated, looked at the words she had written on a paper before her, began a little gingerly to sing the first staccato notes of the Caro Nome from Rigoletto.

The homely old lady should not have hesitated. She was Luisa Tetrazzini. But Tetrazzini had never counted on singing her farewell turn to cinemaddicts who scarcely knew of her. Tremblingly, with oldtime sweetness she sang "The Last Rose of Summer," hesitated, quavered when she came to "all her lovely companions have faded and gone." In her concerts ten years and more ago Tetrazzini had to sing encore after encore. . . the house darkened for a comedy called Oh My Operation!

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