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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your March 19 compilation of Mike Di Salle's quips and anecdotes was interesting enough. But ... I submit that there is more to the price problem than ... the circumference of his stomach...
...Metropolitan Opera is closing its season with La Boheme tonight, Fledermaus and La Traviata tomorrow afternoon and evening, Fledermaus again Thursday night, La Boheme Friday, and Barbiere di Siviglia and Fledermaus next Saturday...
...Di Salle was under no illusions about the enormous difficulties ahead. Prices were already at an alltime high and still climbing. Unlike the OPA days, when the U.S. was just picking itself up after the Depression, the nation's economy was already bulging with inflationary pressures. Di Salle clamped on a general price freeze that was admittedly just a stopgap. But at least it was a beginning. 'The trouble around here," said Mike, is that everybody is so afraid of making a mistake that nobody gets anything done. We are bound to make some mistakes...
Still Going Up. Since then, Di Salle's main preoccupation has been to preside over a controlled thawing of the freeze, to iron out inequities and build an overall system of controls that will keep prices from soaring through the roof. He does not pretend that any order he issues now can stop prices from rising still higher. They will climb at least another 5% o 6, Di Salle admits...
...never fought professionally, finally gave up his amateur bouts because his mother grieved so much over his cut and bruised features. He had done his first singing in his school chorus, but did not decide to become a singer until he was 18, when his school friend, Giuseppe di Stefano (now a Met tenor), urged him to enter a competition in Florence ("It's free . . . there are girls . . ."). Though he knew only two arias, Siepi won the competition. He made his debut in Rigoletto two months later in a provincial opera house. When La Scala reopened in 1946, Siepi...