WORLD-FAMOUS TENOR

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 740, 19 April 1933, Page 3

WORLD-FAMOUS TENOR

Richard Tauber in “ End of the Rainbow.”

“ The Kid From Spain,” the spectacular musical comedy starring Eddie Cantor, the goggle-eyed comedian, will conclude its season at the Theatre Royal on Friday night. Ever endeavouring to improve the quality of audible him entertainment, producers have now enlisted the services of the world’s greatest living tenor, Richard Tauber, who enriches the talking screen with a golden voice and a radiant personality in “ The End of the Rainbow,” which will begin at the Theatre Royal on Saturday. To present this great singer, who climbed to the throne of fame almost in the twinkling of an eye, to screen audiences, a simple romance, adapted from Tauber’s own life, set in the Bavarian Alps, has been chosen. In this picture debut Tauber the actor is delightfully human; Tauber the tenor is magnificent. The melodious beauty of the notes, the evenness of his production, the velvety quality of his upper register, his unfailing sense of rhythm, and the fluency of his phrasing make it an unalloyed joy to listen to him. The story moves from the Bavarian Alps to Berlin, there to reveal flashes of real life behind the scenes at the Opera; there are pretty movements of a love story; there are beauty, drama, touches of comedy, but always the dominant thing is the golden voice of Tauber.