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...this outing, Bob Hope unpacks a parcel of sleazy, wheezy gags about Bing Crosby, Martha Mitchell, New York City, Women's Liberation, wom en's undergarments and Georgie Jessel. For a little change of pace, he tosses off a Billy Graham joke...
...woman with a gigantic voice, the St. Louis-born singer was the first fully American-trained soprano to play Isolde and the three Brünnhildes at the Met. Many critics considered her superior to her rival, Kirsten Flagstad. Independent and unstuffy, she was dropped by Met Manager Rudolf Bing for singing in nightclubs. She withdrew to care for her ailing husband and former business manager, William Bass...
Interim. With all these plans thrown into jeopardy, the Met's dismayed board of directors gathered to consider the problem of a new manager. From Italy, Bing cabled an offer to help, but the Met picked the man whom Gentele himself had chosen as his assistant: Schuyler G. Chapin, 49, a former vice president in charge of programming for Lincoln Center. Chapin has experience in concert management, training as a musician, and was formerly executive producer of Leonard Bernstein's television company, but he has no background in opera management. Said he: "I feel not unlike Harry Truman...
...versed in economics and politics (perhaps accounting for his flair at negotiating labor contracts), had considerable experience as an actor, and had directed movies, theater and opera. His style was cheerful and informal, which helped to ease some of the morale problems left behind by the autocratic Sir Rudolf Bing...
...Where Bing had been conservative, Gentele was disposed to be open and experimental. He hoped to Americanize the Met by hiring U.S. singers whenever possible; he wanted to encourage casual dress and to draw a younger audience. "Young people should come to the opera as they go to hear a pop band," he said. "Opera is a folk art, like bullfighting and prizefighting." His future repertory, he hinted, would vary standard fare with such works as Berlioz's Les Troyens, Janáček's Katya Kabanova and Rossini's frothy L'ltaliana in Algeri...