Show V u Sr NOT 1 YET THIRTY IS HIT OF OPERA California Singer Becomes Sensation of N Y Music Season ny fly GI GIr CIE Gi n r COUN T 1 N NT Service Norvil Writer rw r Jan 10 flack Back Back in inthe the d dot dus of ot I li Ii when covered Ored wag wat- wagons ons one were lere careening on the tho great gral trek to California a n robust sun sun- suntanned suntanned suntanned tanned man hustled along his Iii with a II rich baritone get along there and from timP to toI time burst but Into a song oong of the thA plainS I to make nake less monotonous the long hours bours Eventually the tho trek ended endel nn ant the family settled near Cal eal but the tho songs song of ot tho the tins ere handed do down doun n to a son an anthen then than to a grandson Lawrence Tibbett beth bett b by bs name It Its s a longI long I say V from Crom the open Ie to 10 the tho Metropolitan Opert I Ith Its horseshoe and andI an I 55 famed orld voices Yet from these songs song of ot the trail c cime me recently the most mot sensational olee oice discovery ery of ot a dozen seasons and one of oC the most dramatic lob mo- moments ments In the tho annals of ot the Metro Metro- And It was Lawrence Tibbett 29 son Boli of pioneers who furnished this vOIce and this moment moments Vs ts a 0 boy hi his ole had bad attract attract- attracted attracted attracted ed attention lIe He went In tor for the had he school however I when hen the tho vat ethic me He lie went over oer lard Atter ho he hoI went I ent into Shakespearean pro pro- productions productions with Ith Tyrone Power Also lie Ie had marrIed the married the climax of t schoolboy schoolboy romance In Bam Tho The church choirs ot of Los An- An Angeles gOIs geles found him next and so en- en encouraged encouraged encouraged I was as ho he by friends that with his hi hiI I wife Ife he ho decided to storm the of New lork ork This Is 1 the story of ot thousands thousand of oC ambitious ambillou artists Now In grind opera a as In foot foot- football ball bali or baseball thel e I is tho lh bench Here a wait alt the second string players pia e ers for tor their chinco to 10 togo go Into the big game gamo andI and I ho 1 1 one ma may some day hit the home run or run do down n the field for tor or a touchdown Tibbett got a chanc chance to sing Ing for tor torand forand and andI I with Ith Mine Ime Aid Alda and she he In- In in him hint to the Metropolitan This gave gaso him an Important seaon seat seaton on the the bench and soon he was wa being being- gh given gisen en a chance to sing al al- al nUnc in Faust Faut and 10 In li He lie vias tas a seen to have bave promise And then came camo Falstaff Strangely cly enough nouSh It a was sos a II re after 15 ig years ear oft off the tIme boar boards ls lie Ie H was vias C cast as n Ford to sing sini with the is famed orld Scotti-a Scotti Scott a tremendous tremendous dous rob rolo Lot toi a youngster and anti an n The rest Is Metropolitan Oper s L history Pandemonium broke loose looe at the end cud of ot the second act dh- dh loue The usually conen ath e cro crossd d went ent wild lid and mind with Ith and cills ll c stopped topped the performance It was sas a er very ery amazed and almost almot stunned Lawrence La renee Tibbett that wa was all but dragged from bel behind the th scenes to face the tho throngs And smiling happily from her h r usual seat as the girl girl who ho had known n It all the time that that I Is Mr Mrs Tib- Tib Tibbett Tibbett Tib Tibbett bett er ha has happened Io e I oue ow more snore than titan Ican I can CHI tell to the th thaid aid and faith of oC m my wife he Iso told mo me afterward It han t I been ben up- up uphill uphill hilt hill all the b by a long tong mean meas measure ure There s been a lot do loon hill n and time times limes h n things were ere pret- pret pretty pretty pret pretty ty discouraging She W was S alwa there to back me up and to help gamely gamel to tight fight something on-something on something like lIe the pioneer ancestors who came camo across the plains |