Word: binge
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Metropolitan Opera's Impresario Rudolf Bing, there was no Manhattan crag out of the range of two of grand opera's most massive voices. Wagnerian Tenor Lauritz Melchior, on his way to a singing job in a Las Vegas hotel, updated an old quarrel with Bing (they'had parted company in 1950) by taking him to task for staging opera in English translations. "That is all right for the lesser companies, but the Met should present opera in its greatest form, and that is in the original languages. Besides, you can't understand the words, even...
...Groaner Bing Crosby was back for his 22nd radio season, but the blue of the night was no longer meeting the gold of the day. While lazing about his Nevada ranch this summer, he had got to thinking about his sunset theme (which he helped compose a quarter of a century ago), decided his public must be as bored with it as he is. Bing put The Blue of the Night to pasture, ordered a new instrumental piece to take its place on the Crosby show. Its tentative title: "Bing's Theme...
This Game of Baseball (Fri. 8:30 p.m., CBS). A salute to the national sport, narrated by Bing Crosby...
...almost more than an ambitious impresario could resist, but Rudolf Bing, Austrian-born boss of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, loyally resisted. In Salzburg, Austria, he confirmed reports that he had been asked to take over Berlin's Staedtische Oper. "The offer was very tempting," he said, "because the Berlin Opera has a subsidy of more than $1,000,000 yearly, which makes the work there much easier than under the sad situation at the Metropolitan, where, from year to year, we must live from donations...
...California's Monterey peninsula last week, two separate TV stations, about 14 miles apart in Monterey and Salinas, began beaming test patterns on the same channel (No. 8). It promised to be a friendly, take-turns arrangement. Monterey's KMBY-TV (one quarter owned by Bing Crosby) and Salinas' KSBW-TV had both applied to the FCC for the area's one open channel. Then they decided to pool forces rather than delay local television, perhaps for another year or so, while struggling through lengthy hearings. The FCC granted them its first share-time permit last...