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Show I WHO'S NEWS I THIS WEEK... By Lemuel F. Parton VYYVf YTTY7Y YYTTTTTYVVfTf" Baritone Business Agent. JEW YORK. Opera singers of ' Genoa had a union early in the Eighteenth century and sundry were broken in its furtherance, but Lawrence Tibbett is, according to all available records, the first baritone, bari-tone, tenor or bass to take up that line of work in modern times. Mr. Tibbett, as head of the American Amer-ican Guild of Musical Artists, joins the drive to form a union of radio broadcasters in the American Federation Fed-eration of Labor. It is indicated that they are beating the C. I. O. to this objective. Mr. Tibbett was upped to fame on the night of January 2, 1925. Before Be-fore that, he had sung meager roles under his $60 a week Metropolitan contract. On this occasion, singing in Verdi's "Falstaff," he stole the snow trom bcottl, with a thundering ovation rarely given any singer at the Met. He was the son of a sheriff in the "Badlands" country around Bakers-field, Bakers-field, Calif. His father was killed by a bandit and young Tibbett grew up in Los Angeles. He knew he had a , voice, but he didn't want to sing. He wanted to be a Shakespearean actor. Hoping to study for the stage, he earned money singing at churches and movie palaces, becoming be-coming soloist for the California theater. In 1922, he arrived in New York on borrowed money. He worked up a concert and sold a lot of tickets, but he wasn't there. He had the mumps. All that came out of the concert was an extra "T" dropped in his name by the program printer. He let it ride and that's how he became be-came Tibbett instead of Tibbet. Numerologists would say, of course, that that was what changed his luck. At any rate, the change came soon after. Gatti-Casazza gave him a hearing and he was soon on the uptake in the Metropolitan. He is tall and good looking and lacking in those stellar eccentricities eccentrici-ties which make newspaper copy. There is, though, one little oddity worth noting. Apt to have headaches, head-aches, he cures them by walking around on his hands. He says that i sluices the blood down into his head I and stops the pain. I ... j Egypt's New King. j T"IXG FAROUK I, who was ' crowned king of Egypt recent- 1 ly on his eighteenth birthday, ' seems to be entirely acceptable to ' me powerful Wafd sect which, during dur-ing the last few years, has been fanning fan-ning up a challenging nationalist movement in Egypt. England has done some adroit maneuvering since his father, old King Saud, died In April, 1936. King Farouk was educated in part at the Royal Military academy and, it Is understood, is enthusiastically certified by the British guardians of the empire. It is believed that this coronation will cinch a bit tighter the political and economic ties of Britain and Egypt. This has become be-come a matter of special concern since Italy's seizure of Ethiopia and her threat to the blue Nile with its bearing on vast cotton growing and processing projects in the Sudan. For the last two years, Farouk has enjoyed kingly status, but under a regency. He will now be Egypt's first nominally independent ruler In four centuries. He is an athlete, six feet tall, skilled in polo, swimming swim-ming and other sports. Like his late father, he likes to drive a big red car to the mosque on Friday to observe the Moslem Sabbath. Sab-bath. His absorbing interest Is his stamp collection. Tvo boy kings are left Peter II of Jugoslavia, aged fourteen, and King Ananda of Siarn, aged eleven. ... Pennsylvania Haltle. OVER.NOR EAKLE of Prnnsyl- vania was a Kepubliean who became a Democrat. Mayor S. Davis Wilson of Philadelphia was a Democrat who became a Republican. Republi-can. Each has supported the other In the past. Now they arc deep in a roek-and-soek battle all their own typical of shifts and blurring of party lines under high political pressure. pres-sure. The militant Mayor Wilson Is gunning for the governor, charging charg-ing the latter with responsibility for sending wire-tappers into Philadelphia. Philadel-phia. They fudge into the national picture, pic-ture, as Governor Earle, it is understood, under-stood, wants to be President and Mayor Vilson wants to be governor. Mayor Wilson vas comptroller of Philadelphia before he became the city's one hundred thirteenth mayor January C, l'Xffl. He is a hefty and hardy seasoned political battier, in politics many years, elected by liberals, lib-erals, reformers, laboril.es and New Dealers, but now (ih.ving away from the lot of fhem and vehemently an-ti an-ti itoo ;evelt. Console!-. fer, rr-ws Fealuics. W.'iU l,oi', |