Graham Daily Reporter (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 95, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 22, 1937 Page: 3 of 4
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Lawrence Tibbett Onoe Picked Grape. To
Pay
n*
la H«t la"
twin* acar Lm
TMwtt waappoor
la having a
hart" thee trying to support bU "If*
Ho seog in a church choir on Sun-
day, and picked up ftoe dollar* now
and then by singing Oh, Promise
Me! st a wadding.
Ha studied for years; bat he
twenty-two curtain calls at a single
1 performance, and making himsslf
one of tbs meat Cnaeoue harttcnseih*
I |J^ f
couldn't afford to Utoe in, Lawrence Tibbett spent hie child-
town. . . . Se be rented n bouse in' hood in Bnkertfleld. Californio, foe
the country. The bouse coot him years, bis tether had been a cowboy
only twelve dollars and fifty cent* ,D California, and now was sheriff
a month: but little ns that was, it|of Kern County, California. Being n
was sometimesbe could, sheriff seemed like s mighty excit-
wbdnbsday.dk. n, imt
of the glee club—and they
He tried to get
wouldn't have him.
a .art InktbVMgfa school piayv
Ha. lUs boy
to becosss tbs
most famous singer that ever came
of California was turasd down
cold whan he wanted to sing in *
big) .MUoi concert. The spelt of
| genius didn't shine through his voice |
until he was twenty-one years old. |
■ - <i i ■ .mm.. — —
If it's
basall Gifts,
has tt
in Paris, Central
make as a singer. He rented a piano in* *nd glnmoruos business to young
for five dolhflT'h' month, but he j Larry Tibbett, so his boyhood ambi-
front room ] tion was to be a sheriff himself like
his father.
on s steep hillside and the front | Then suddenly a dramatic and,
part of it waa propped up on high tragi<; thing happened. His father ■
stilts and he was afraid the piano WHg shot an(j killed in B battle with
would fall through the floor and go;jim McKinney, one pf the most no-
rolbng and bouncing through thei torlou* bank robbers and gun men
grapo vines until it struck the hot- of thl, Wegt
tom of the bill. That shooting changed the whole
When he first came to New York,
he couldn’t afford to buy even the
cheapest seat in the Metropolitan
lolly Old Lamp-Lighcer
by A. B. CHAPW*
Opera House. So he used to pay.
two dollars and twenty cents for t,he
course of Lawrence Tibbett's life,
for his father was a very religious
man, bitterly opposed to smoking
and dancing and card playing and
the thegtriu and .Tibbett told me
prhiilege of standing up in the back that if his fakbt^Jjpd not been shot,
wasn't getting anywhere. However-^ couldn’t put It in the
he had a friend, Rupert Hughes, because the rickety old house stood
wbo believed in him. Hughes said:
‘“You have the makings of a great
voice. You ought to study in New
York” •
That little bit of friendly encour-
agement proved to be the turning
point in Tibbett’s life, for it caused
him to borrow twenty-five hundred
dollars and start Cast. What if he
failed to make gPod in New York?
Well, if he did, he was determined
to go back to California and make
a living Belling automobile trucks. priuilege of standing up in the back that jf his fatfcejjmd i
TTmt wax in 1022 I* Lawrence of the mighty Metropolitan Opera he hffriiMrtf would rjyer have dared
Tibbett selling automobile trucks to- : House to listen to the glamorous T0 become a singer and an actor. H.a
day? IHr from it! He is now selling I performances of the immortal Scotti father s training still casts a spell
hia services for thousands of dollars 1 and the beautiful Mary Garden. In over him and even now he seldom
a week in Hollywood. And the next I those days, he had to borrow money gmokes more than one cigar a year;
' from his friends to pay, for his room J and when he docs, he has the feel-
rent end music lessons. | ing that he is doing something ter-
Yet ten years later, he himself , riMy wrong and that the devil is
was striding across the proud stage standing right by his side, urging
of the Metropolitan^ arousing a, him on to destruction,
frenxy of wild huzzas, winning j „ a hoy in high school, Tibbett
developed an inferiority complex.
| His mother ran! a rooming house. He
, had‘only one suit of clothes, his
trousers were 1 too short, and he
couldn’t buy his best girl an ice
cream soda at the comer drug store.
The other students snubbed him and
1 («»id no attention to him. So he re-,
solved to make a name for himself j
and be looked about for a short cuti
; to tfistftictfbn. He tried te became a I
-—‘—.-,-—*----
If it’s Richard Hudaut, Central j
Drug Store has it, !
time you hear his stirring voice on
the radio, it may interest you to re-
call that someone is paying him
three hundred dollars a minute, or
five dollars a second, to sing to you.
In l#fc, Lawrence Tibbett was so
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Trout, H. I. Graham Daily Reporter (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 95, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 22, 1937, newspaper, December 22, 1937; Graham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1115998/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Library of Graham.