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...Economic Chief, Brigadier General William O'Dwyer. He brought with him some harrowing statistics: Italy's infant mortality was up four times since the last prewar year; her general mortality rate had doubled within a year, her tuberculosis rate had tripled. The average Italian, never a Falstaff. had lost five to ten pounds in weight...
...rickets." At 79, Michelangelo began to write sonnets; at 73, Galileo published his discoveries on the revolutions of the moon; at 82, Goethe finished Faust; at 88, John Wesley preached every day; at 78, Franklin became U.S. Ambassador to France; after 70, Verdi composed his great Othello and Falstaff; after 70, Cornelius Vanderbilt made more than $100,000,000. "After the critical age between 50 and 60 has been passed," observes Dr. Gumpert, "there often seems to be a new flowering of gifts and talents, colored by all the splendor of the setting...
...Wives of Windsor, has long been regarded by many critics as his best. But ever since its first performance in 1893, with the late great Baritone Victor Maurel in the title role, it has tended to be a flop at the box office. The reasons are several. As drama Falstaff is sketchy, gentle, lacking in emotional intensity. As music, Falstaff is a tapestry of lacy subtleties, so fragile that only the finest opera companies can perform it without tearing it to tatters. But perhaps the most important reason for Falstaff's neglect is the scarcity of baritones...
...finest was Victor Maurel. Since he introduced the role at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, it has also been sung there by the late Antonio Scotti and by Lawrence Tibbett. Last week the Met presented its fourth Falstaff: big, pudgy 33-year-old Leonard Warren, whose suave baritoning was the hit of last summer's opera season at Buenos Aires' Teatro Colón (TIME...
...compare him with Maurel. But they did admit that vocally Warren had an edge on Tibbett's now rather threadbare version, and that the newcomer made Shakespeare's amorous fat man a likable and believable character. It looked as though the Met's fourth Falstaff might reign for some time...