CAN'T ALL BE STARS.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 112, 13 May 1937, Page 21

CAN'T ALL BE STARS.

Since the rise of Lanny Ross, the ex-Yale athlete, to stardom in America, hundreds of other Yale- students have come piping down to New York each season with four years' YalJ Glee Club training to their credit, and the remarkable notion that each will be singing "Faust" at the Metropolitan Opera House before morning, comments a caustic critic in the San Francisco "Chronicle." Fortunately for them, Mr. Edward Johnson, of the Metropolitan, has kept his head, so that after a few weeks at the Juillard School of Music these would-be Martinellis from Yale usually wind up in some other branch of activity, insurance or plate-glass works—which may not be "Faust" by a long shot, but.at least is 18 dollars a week. The single exception to the dismal rule is Charlie Kullman, the Newhaven-bom tenor who graduated from Yale in 1924, sang leading roles at the Salzburg Festival, and later joined the Metropolitan. His Don Jose in a recent revival of "Carmen" brought friendlier criticism than Rose Ponsell's impersonation of Merimee's heroine.