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White Christmas (Paramount) is a sentimental recollection of the 1942 musical Holiday Inn, in which Bing Crosby first sang the song White Christmas. From the first scene (Christmas 1944) to the last (Christmas 1954), it is blatantly the I "big musical," a big fat yam of a picture richly candied with VistaVision (Paramount's answer to CinemaScope), Technicolor, tunes by Irving Berlin, massive production numbers, and big stars. Unfortunately, the yam is still...
...Opera. In those days, hiring a Negro artist was unthinkable at the Met. She went on the concert stage instead, and became one of the great recitalists of all time. But last week, fiftyish and famous as ever,* she sat down with the Met's General Manager Rudolf Bing and signed up for a starring role this winter...
...what all the excitement is about," said Bing. "We've signed up fine singers before. I was sitting beside Miss Anderson at a reception last month, and I simply asked her if she would like to sing the role of the gypsy, Ulrica, in Verdi's Masked Ball for us." She had never seen the music, but would try it for range. Last week she went over it with Dimitri Mitropoulos, who will conduct the work, and "everything went beautifully...
Three years ago, Manager Bing had hired Dancer Janet Collins to be his prima ballerina, making her the first Negro artist on the Met roster in any capacity. He expects to employ other Negro singers if they "are right for the roles." Said Marian Anderson, as usual referring to herself with the modest impersonal pronoun: "Now one is speechless." Would her place in Met history be comparable to Jackie Robinson's in baseball? "One hopes so," she said. "It would be a matter of pride...
Until last summer, Palmer's project was progressing smoothly. He had persuaded a U.S. company to make the recordings at cost and to provide free record players. He had lined up professional entertainers (including Dolores del Rio, Bing Crosby, Andy Russell and Mexico's Cantinflas) to sing songs and tell stories. He planned to record Mexican classics and concerts, hoped to have a series of Mexican travelogues "so that the blind can appreciate the beauties they can never see." Such notables as Mexico City's Archbishop Luis Mario Martinez had given his project their blessings; a department...