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...success as Amfortas in last summer's Parsifal at Bayreuth. Florida-born Negro Soprano Maroyne Betsch, 25, won rave reviews for her Salome with the Braunschweig Opera. In Bern, Tennessee-born Chloë Owen made outstanding debuts in Lohengrin and Mathis der Maler. Minnesota-born Bass-Baritone Keith Engen, 35, one of the stars of the Munich Opera, is so idolized in Germany that he obligingly changed the spelling of his first name to "Kieth" to make it easier for audiences...
...production's cast was youthful and predominantly non-German: Hungary's Sandor Konya as Lohengrin, Austria's Leonie Rysanek as Elsa, France's Ernest Blanc as Telramund, the U.S.'s Astrid Varnay as Ortrud, and Keith Engen, who sang King Heinrich (wearing his 1944 University of California class ring). While the principals were vocally uninspired, the chorus was in splendid form-despite severe hardships. Wieland's staging demands that the male chorus remain frozen-and conscious-for 70 minutes in the first act. In last week's premiere, several members retreated giddily...
Tokle's old No. 1 competitor, Norwegian-born, 36-year-old Alf Engen of Sun Valley, set the new course record at 259 feet to win the first National Ski Championships since 1942. His leap was still 30 feet short of Tokle's U.S. record jump, made off Michigan's Iron Mountain in 1942-and far short of the 300-ft. jump that Tokle had predicted for Steamboat Springs...
BERLIN. N. H.--Hampered by sticky snow, Alf Engen of the Sun Valley Ski Club successfully defended his title today by capturing the National Ski Jumping Championship from a field of 200 of the nation's top flight skiers...
...Engen of Salt Lake City; the national amateur ski-jumping tournament: on Ecker Hill 25 mi. east of his home town; by jumping 245 ft. for a new U. S. record...