Word: contracting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always, the announcement from the Administration of a change in contract status is couched in the most patronizing of terms. "While by the terms of the existing contract the University could refuse to make any wage adjustment until June, 1947," the release says, "it felt that in justice to its employees it should waive that right...
Continued suppression of the facts behind the decisions in labor-management differences is more than anything else a sign of weak and subservient unionism. No healthy union would sign without a murmur a contract which in these inflationary days gives its members only an imaginary wage rise--as yesterday's "grant" from the University so obviously does...
Although the Dramatic Club has two other female performers under contract, their news-value had not yet been exploited up until dress-rehearsal time last night. Miss Jane Bergwall of Simmons is portraying Lilith and Miss Helen McCloskey, who works for the University is cast as a Woman...
...years later, Damrosch called Helen Traubel to New York to sing The Man Without a Country. His opera survived only five performances at the Metropolitan, but Helen Traubel so impressed NBC officials that they offered her a $10,000 contract. Traubel soon decided that she liked neither the music she had to sing nor the way she had to sing it, and tore up the contract...
Change in Regime. One Sunday afternoon in 1939, just after her first recital in Manhattan's Town Hall, Traubel sang the Immolation Scene from Göterdämerung with the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York. She was quickly offered a Metropolitan contract; this time she was ready. In her Met debut as Sieglinde in Die Walküe, Flagstad sang Brünnhilde and Lauritz Melchior Siegmund. Traubel's opulent tones sent critics away raving. Said the New York Times: "The voice is a glorious one." After an Ann Arbor concert, a reviewer...