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...Johnson and a little knot of gracious but sharp-eyed Met directors. They apparently liked what they saw: a tall, fastidious man of 47, with charm and a manner of quick, cool decision. At lunch next day, they raised a question: would he consider leaving Glyndebourne and his great Edinburgh Festival (TIME, Sept. 20) to succeed retiring General Manager Johnson in 1950? Rudolf Bing considered it carefully. The Met's directors liked him even better for the way he candidly answered their questions about his policies and prescriptions for curing the artistically and financially ailing Met. Said Bing...
...would have time to learn. This fall, he will come over to the Met when the Edinburgh Festival is finished, look over Johnson's shoulder as "manager-designate" for a season before taking over on his own three-year contract. What he will see is a challenge to any man: money troubles, overage scenery, outdated lighting and staging techniques, under-enthusiastic singing and acting. But at least he will get plenty of advice. The Daily News's John Chapman spoke for the other critics: "Man and boy, I've been telling Johnson and [Giulio] Gatti-Casazza before...
...candidate, however, both by age (20 weeks) and position (eventual heir to the British throne) was not likely to run for public office. Nevertheless, Prince Charles of Edinburgh was daily in the public mind. Last week, his parents, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, packed young Charles off by motorcar to spend Easter at their new home at Windlesham Moor, 30 miles from London, in Surrey. The trip did not disturb the clocklike daily routine which Charlie's mother had decreed. Each morning at 6, he awoke for a breakfast of milk and patent cereal. Three other meals and long...
Audiences and critics liked the play, too; they called it the best of Dallas' eight-play season. One reviewer ranked it as high as anything ever done at the playhouse, where Tennessee Williams' Summer and Smoke had its first showing. Already slated for this summer's Edinburgh Festival of Music and Drama with Flora Robson starred, it was thought to be a cinch for Broadway production. Though the authors refused to share this prediction, Collaborator Evans sounded cautiously optimistic: "We've tasted blood. We don't want to do anything ever again except write...
...scarce, British cooking was as dull as ever, and prices were comparatively high. But the intellectual fare was good. The Shakespeare season was scheduled to open this month at Stratford on Avon, the Malvern Festival to be revived with a new Shaw play in July, and the third Edinburgh Festival, in the island's stateliest city, to be celebrated in August...