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When, on their golden wedding anniversary, NBC gave the Maestro and buxom Carla Toscanini a clock that supposedly would run for 50 years without rewinding, Toscanini beamed happily and said: "Just think, when this clock stops, no one here in this room will be here but me." Last week Carla was in Italy, and son Walter and his family were staying with the Maestro at the big house in Riverdale. Daughter Wanda visits frequently (with her pianist husband, Vladimir Horowitz). He often talks by telephone with his other daughter Wally, the Countess Castel-barco, who lives in Italy...
Tagliavini had met buxom Pia Tassinari (still her stage name) in Sicily during the war. They were singing opposite each other in Mascagni's L'Amico Fritz in Palermo. Suddenly the air-raid sirens screamed. Audience and singers scurried for shelter. Then Tenor Tagliavini, who had taken an instant shine to the black-eyed soprano, got his chance. In the darkness of the shelter, says he, he murmured "sweet words of comfort...
Other Houses, however, balked at the idea of femininity in their forthcoming productions and either dispensed with heroines or offered buxom upperclassmen in their stead. Puritanical Eliot will even forbid women in their "Merry Wives of Windsor" audience...
...Isolde. Last week, looking for someone to fill one big gap, the Metropolitan served up a real Thanksgiving turkey. To share buxom Helen Traubel's Wagnerian roles (so that Traubel could concertize for half the season), the Met had imported a six-foot, 200-pound German soprano named Erna Schleuter. Opposite her, as Tristan in the season's first Tristan und Isolde, was German Tenor Max Lorenz, who had not been heard at the Met since...
...husky nightclub handyman shoved the Steinway out to the center of the floor. The lights went down; over a shattering fanfare, a voice roared out the name that in the past month has become the talk of Manhattan's barfly set. Nellie Lutcher, a buxom 5 ft. 9 in a long white gown, swept...