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...TERRY L. BAUM...
Tenors the Met has had aplenty, but most are strictly platers. This year it had to scratch two: Jussi Bjoerling (because he could not get out of his native Sweden); Tito Schipa (because he returned to his native Italy at the bidding of Count Ciano). New tenors were Kurt Baum, a personable Czech (onetime heavyweight boxing champion of Prague) who showed good form in a bit in Der Rosenkavalier, and Jan Peerce, a veteran of Radio City Music Hall, who showed even more in his debut as the hero of Traviata...
Three viktorias in as many lines-and I could quote you half a dozen poems more. If I had a dollar for every German girl whose name is Viktoria, or every German boy whose name is Viktor, I should comfortably afford to subscribe for FORTUNE. Ask Vicki Baum some time, if you don't believe...
...TERRY L. BAUM Beverly Hills, Calif...
...Frank Baum, the man who hit the literary jackpot many years ago writing nice unpretentious stories about a little girl named Dorothy, must be doing more than his share of acrobatics in his coffin these days. For M.G.M. has screened his "immortal classic," the "Wizard of Oz," as only M.G.M. can. With a sort of inverted Midas touch, they have turned fabulous amounts of gold into one of the most imposing pictures of the season. Of course, Frank Baum has been rather left out of things in the process and a strong aroma of Walt Disney drifts out from...