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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Simon Boccanegra, with Leonard Warren and Astrid Varnay...
...rock as one of the Valkyries and sing the part. Then the Met got a real sticker: Helen Traubel's doctor phoned to say that she had laryngitis, would not be able to go on as Brünnhilde. The Met's other Brünnhilde, Astrid Varnay, was not available. Finally, at 4 p.m., someone recalled that the wife of new Viennese Baritone Ferdinand Frantz, who was scheduled to sing Wotan that night, had sung Brünnhilde in Vienna and Munich. Musical Director Max Rudolf picked up the phone and called Madame Frantz (stage name: Helena...
More Responsibilities. One day in 1934, father Albert, an ardent mountain-climber, fell to his death from a cliff near Namur. A year and a half later the new King Leopold was motoring with Queen Astrid near Lucerne, he at the wheel and she with a map in her lap. When his wife asked a question, the monarch leaned over and the car swerved. It plunged down a grassy slope, hit two trees and fell into the lake. The Queen fractured her skull, died 20 minutes later. The King hurtled through the car's windshield. To the first policeman...
Leopold's household includes the three children of Astrid-Princess Josephine-Charlotte, 21, Crown Prince Baudouin, 18, Prince Albert, 15-and Mary Liliane's son, Alexandre, 7. It is an affectionate family circle. To the stepchildren, Mary Liliane is a gay, smiling maman...
Leopold is extremely eager to become again the King of the Belgians in fact as well as in name. He recently sent his and Astrid's daughter Charlotte on a triumphant tour of the country. Everywhere Charlotte was cheered wildly. But, said anti-Leopoldists, they cheered because they liked Charlotte and because she was Astrid's daughter, not because she was Leopold...