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...possibilities for further desecration, as Miss Alderley envisioned them, were endless: Frank Sinatra as the defendant in Trial by Jury, charged with stealing a pizza pie; The Gondoliers remade into The Road to Venice, with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. It was even suggested to Dorothy Alderley that Elvis Presley might play Nanki-Poo. Snapped she: "I'd Nanki-Poo him if I could get my hands...
...radio. This year, with the Metropolitan auditions radio program off the air, they were brought to New York by the Met's National Council to compete on the great stage before judges and an audience. Each of the 15 contestants had a preliminary hearing before General Manager Rudolf Bing and his panel to decide what they should sing in the finals, then rehearsed under Conductor Kurt Adler. With that preparation, they walked onto the Meistersinger set (already in place for an evening performance) to compete for the big prize: a contract with...
...hours, seven sopranos, two mezzos, four baritones, a tenor and a bass worked their way through arias from Mozart, Massenet, Verdi, Wagner. Then, while audience and contestants stepped up to Sherry's Bar for a breather, Bing retired to his office with the other judges, half an hour later came out with the names of the winners. The Met decided to award two contracts-to Tacoma's 30-year-old Baritone Roald Reitan and 20-year-old, Toronto-born Soprano Teresa Stratas. Baritone Reitan, who was turned down by a Met scout four years ago when he auditioned...
Bouncing back from his freak disqualification loss at Brown, Foster defeated Yale's highly regarded Hardy Will, 9 to 6. The other top Yale men--123-pounder Andy Fitch and heavyweight Bing Sherrill--picked up wins, although Sherrill had a hard battle before beating the varsity's Ted Robbins on a 9-7 decision...
Yale, supporting a 4-1 Ivy League record, has at least three wrestlers considered championship threats in next weekend's Easterns at Cornell. They are 123-pounder Andy Fitch, Hardy Will--at 177--and heavy weight Bing Sherrill...