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Busy as ever shaking up the old Met, Rudolf Bing announced last week that he will have 16 new singers this season, and two one-shot directors from Broadway: Alfred Lunt (Cosi Fan Tutti) and the Old Vic's Tyrone Guthrie (Carmen). Bing's new roster ended with dancers, and the name of a new premiere danseuse, New Orleans-born Janet Collins, of last season's Broadway show, Out of This World. That was where the reporters found their headlines. In the 68-year history of the Met, Premiere Danseuse Collins is the first Negro to become...
Here Comes the Groom (Paramount) puts Bing Crosby and Producer-Director Frank Capra up to their oldest tricks and ought to amuse all but those optimistic moviegoers who dare to hope for new ones. Crosby, carrying his breeziness this time to gale proportions, plays a newspaperman home from France with two adopted war orphans. Unless he can get a wife to mother them, they will be deported within the week. But his longtime fiancee (Jane Wyman), tired of waiting, had finally decided to marry Multimillionaire Franchot Tone. To woo Jane back just in time to disrupt a colossal wedding ceremony...
High among his other qualifications for the job of general manager of the Met, Rudolf Bing is a businessman. When his bubbly new production of Fledermaus became a box-office hit last winter (TIME, Jan. 15), he made up his mind to take a businessman's risk. The scheme: to set up the first "auxiliary" opera troupe in Met history, and send it across the U.S. and Canada to sing nothing but Fledermaus. The troupe would bring live Met music to cities that never hear it and, Bing hoped, make a tidy profit. Cut the pauper-poor Met could...
...Bing took his idea to Frank Stanton, president of CBS (owner of Columbia Records). In a matter of minutes, he had a $70,000 loan. "Of course," says Bing, "it wasn't just because of my pretty blue eyes." The tour will be a high-class plug for Columbia's new Fledermaus album...
...audiences had a rollicking good time all week. Said one surprised young lady: "I like it even better than South Pacific." Their 30-week tour will take the Met auxiliaries into more than 30 cities for some 200 performances. Weekly cost of the show: $30,000. Estimated profit? Says Bing: "I should say from zero to a quarter of a million dollars. I would be very disappointed if it makes zero and very surprised if it makes a quarter of a million...