Word: batons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...without costumes or scenery, and with no box lunches in the studio audience. He lined up his cast of soloists (mostly Met stars) before the mikes like an old-fashioned singing class, so that he could keep a sharp eye and a firm baton on them. Tenor Jan Peerce, in the first act's duet with Soprano Licia Albanese, closed on a lower E (as Puccini wrote it) instead of the flashier high C he likes to exit on at the Met. Surprise star of the show was Toscanini's 20-year-old soprano find, Anne Me Knight...
Plantation Family. Frances Parkinson Keyes is the widow of New Hampshire's former Governor Henry Wilder Keyes, and author of some 23 books, including 1943's best-selling Crescent Carnival. In Louisiana in 1939, she was impressed by the old River Road between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Most of its once gracious plantation houses were boarded up or falling apart; most of their predominantly Creole, sugar-planting owners had moved on. But among the thronging revenants in this graveyard of a once graceful provincial culture, there were a few surviving residents. Novelist Keyes decided to report their...
...fictional plantation is Belle Heloise and its owners the d'Alverys. There is Madame Mere, who uses her imaginary invalidism to rule the plantation from her bedside. There is Gervais d'Alvery, the heir presumptive. He marries a Baton Rouge stenographer who proves to be a strong prop of plantation life. There is Gervais' sister Cresside, a wild sprig who turns into a solid prop of the proprieties. There are, in fact, so many d'Alverys and other characters that some readers may wish that Novelist Keyes had supplied a dynastic chart and dramatis personae...
...final runoff was offered to the fans, and grandstand opinion in the Northeast Corner contended that the Crimson would have benefited by it because of its superior baton handling. As it was, their time did not stack up to the 3:26 of NYU, and the four just had to content themselves with the show money...
...concert hall of Minsk's Red Army House was packed, as for the premiere of a Shostakovich symphony. From the balcony seven baby spotlights painted the orchestra pit an eerie yellow. There was a nervous clearing of throats. But no baton was raised. Tonight the program was a trial of German war criminals, and the conductor was the public prosecutor...