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...this year's team. Of his hurlers, only Dom Repetto has had much past experience, and the other moundsmen wil have to come through if the team's veteran strength elsewhere is to bring a successful season. A replacement must also be found for last year's catcher, Bing Crosby...
GRACE GRIMALDI (nee Kelly), who stays in tune but needs a bit more lung to outgroan Old Pro Bing Crosby in the last chorus of True Love (Capitol), from the sound track of High Society...
...explained that the Asians "have bitter memories of bing used as pawns in a power struggle" and that a new policy, renouncing "the old-fashioned principle of smash and grab, is absolutely inescapable...
Imported Singers. The trouble with the Ring, says Bing, is that it requires as much time and money to prepare as seven operas of the scope of Madame Butterfly. Even with its present success, it plays to only a fraction of the total audiences that the Italian operas draw (while three Ring performances are extraordinary, a popular repertory opera can be put on from eight to a dozen times each season, thereby making investments in rehearsal time and sets worthwhile). Moreover, the Ring requires the importation of singers most of whom sing only Wagner and hence appear a mere dozen...
Nevertheless, the Ring cycle will continue to be a periodic, if not an annual, part of the Met's repertory. "After all," says Bing, "Wagner was one of the great geniuses of his age. So it does not matter whether I like...