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...loud Philadelphian applause testified that it was all perfectly natural. The opera, old Vienna's "grand operetta" Die Fledermaus (The Bat) by Waltz King Johann Strauss, furnishes a place for interpolated entertainment. To hire Larry Adler for The Bat was just one more bright idea of the Philadelphia Opera Company, a young, English-singing troupe which has been tossing off bright operatic ideas for three seasons. Besides the solo Blue Danube, Larry Adler had two en cores up his sleeve-Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody. Ravel...
...shake 19 operas-in-English out of their sleeves. Newest Phila delphia stunt is to have a tenor sing the incredible quasi-male operatic roles usu ally warbled by women in tights-Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Siebel in Faust, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Prince Orlofsky in The Bat, Nicklausse in The Tales of Hoffmann...
...years of big-league baseball, he averaged .358 at bat-an average topped only by Ty Cobb's .367 (for 24 years...
After Norm Cameron of the Bunnies had to drop out in the first inning because of a bad leg, Phil Weeks took the mound for the remainder of the contest. Cameron stayed in the game, however, and got two hits in three times at bat. Neff, pitching for the Elephants, did well except for the fourth inning when he gave up five urns and the ball game...
Pacing the Kirkland attack was Jack Dixon, shortstop, who hit every time he came to bat. Larry Munson and Harold Levitan, the left side of the Eliot infield, starred for Eliot...