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With this preoccupation, he has brought a new kind of singing actress to the fore. Menotti singers such as Marie Powers and his latest discovery, tall, dark-eyed, Brooklyn-born Patricia Neway, 27, the star of The Consul, may be vocally a step below the Met; dramatically they are well above...
...Broadway's Ethel Barrymore Theatre was already sold out through August. He had also brought up a new voice. Menotti-veteran Marie (The Medium) Powers, contralto, got her due from the audience for her moving performance as the resistance leader's mother. But it was tall, dark, Brooklyn-born Soprano Neway whose powerful denunciation aria in the second act stopped the show. When the curtain came down the new Broadway opera had to share the cheers with a new Broadway star...
Died. Tasker Lowndes Oddie, 79, Brooklyn-born onetime prospector who went west as a young man, struck it rich in salver, became a Republican governor of Nevada (1910-14) and a U.S. Senator (1921-33); in San Francisco...
...faced young chemistry instructor at Hoboken's Stevens Institute of Technology put aside his lecture notes and boarded a train for Schenectady, N.Y. After long months in classroom and lab, even a temporary summer job at the new General Electric Research Laboratory looked good to 28-year-old Brooklyn-born Irving Langmuir, metallurgical engineer (Columbia) and Ph.D. in chemistry (Gottingen). But the job was better than that...
...year-old New York University sophomore, Brooklyn-born Wald landed a job as radio columnist for the old New York Graphic on the strength of sample columns written with the help of a CBS office boy. A free-lance fan magazine piece about the late Crooner Russ Colombo won him a Warners' writer contract when he was 20, and his career began in earnest. As a producer, after nine years of scripting, he quickly displayed a knack for grabbing story ideas out of the headlines (Action in the North Atlantic, Destination Tokyo), and for hastily getting aboard profitable trends...