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 rescued from the limbo predestined for most amateur productions. Established, bass-singing cow, squeaky-voiced giant and all, in a regular Manhattan theatre, it will have at least a two-weeks run. (For picture of cow, see TIME, Nov. 30, p. 22.)

Meanwhile, sailing for Europe was Fabien Sevitzky, nephew of Boston's Sergei Koussevitzky who dropped the first four letters of his name some years ago so that his career would not be just a pale reflection of his illustrious uncle's. Sevitzky, like Koussevitzky, is a double-bass virtuoso; like his uncle exceedingly handsome, well-groomed. After fleeing from Russia in Revolution time, tramping through dense woods in stormy weather, carrying the double bass which was a gift from his uncle, Sevitzky came to the U. S., joined the Philadelphia Orchestra. For the past six years he has conducted his own Philadelphia Chamber String Simfonietta, an organization composed of 18 Philadelphia Orchestra members which goes on tour playing rarely heard music written for strings. In the U. S. Conductor Sevitzky has still to make a big name for himself. (For financial reasons this autumn he had to resort to conducting the orchestra in Boston's Metropolitan cinema theatre.) But four great orchestras in Europe think well enough of him to invite him to conduct there this winter: the Orchestra Symphonique de Paris, the Berlin, Vienna and Warsaw Philharmonics.

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