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...Salzburg in 1937. The Met brought her to the U.S. three months later. She knew neither Italian nor English. After ten harried weeks with an Italian tutor, she made her Met debut in Il Trovatore. Now she is the Met's first choice in such Italian operas as Aida, La Gioconda, La Forza del Destino and Norma. Of Norma, Mme. Milanov says proudly: "To sing it a woman must have had very big experience in life...
Friday Evening May 14 Overture to "Mignon" "The Ride of the Valkyrion" Gorshwinian, Fantasy on Gershwin Melodies Saturday Evening, May 15 "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" (After a Ballad of Goethe) "Marche Slave" Fantasia" Aida" Salute to Our Fighting Forces Arranged by Halls of Montezuma-Semper Army Air Corps-Anchors As the Caissons Go Rolling Along God Bless America Sunday Evening, May 16 Overture on Three Greek Themes, Op. 3 Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16 Streets of Pekin (Chinese Impressions...
...given it a model to learn from and then disregard. Two Toronto sergeants, 26-year-old Frank Shuster and 24-year-old Johnny Wayne, had authored a peppy book, some perky tunes and lyrics. Canada's Jack Arthur, Broadway's Romney Brent and Hollywood's Aida Broadbent had punched the show into shape. And civilian donations had decked it out in mighty fine feathers...
...hardly two weeks ago that I were playing a starring role in "Aida"; I was the fourth spearman in the second rank in the Red Battalion in the second scene in the second act. The notorious defection of the Boston papers in falling to mention my outstanding performance was due, I am convinced, to the lack of space caused by the sinking of three Malden men and a couple of tankers the day before by a Nazi submarine...
...someone paid some attention to us and kicked us off. Three or four minutes later the band began to play the star-spangled banner. If we had delayed our March on Egypt (or Escape from the Boiler room) another ten minutes we might have made a new opera of "Aida...