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Eight days later, Daninos received a second questionnaire repeating many of the previous questions. Daninos blew up. Last week the Paris Figaro frontpaged a Daninos letter to President Truman. Said Daninos: "Being only vaguely informed about the U.S., I would like to proceed with an 'investigation check.'" Sample questions directed at the U.S.: "1) What were you doing before the discovery of America? (List of residences before and after 1492-complete history of employment.) 2) What is your complexion? Distinctive marks and characteristics? 3) References: give the names of three major and responsible countries, not related...
MILDRED MILLER, sprightly, Cleveland-born soprano, who made her Met debut as Cherubino in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro a fortnight...
...week's end, Bing had momentarily run out of new productions, but he put on a high-spirited Marriage of Figaro, and introduced a promising American newcomer while he was about it. Cleveland-born Mezzo-Soprano Mildred Miller sang a charming, properly boyish Cherubino, stopped the show with her second-act aria, Voi Che Sapete. It was, everybody agreed, the final bright spot in the Met's sparkling week...
...widowed and impoverished, Madame Albane de Siva had no Fairy Godmother, but she had always had very small feet. Last week when she read in Figaro that the shoemakers of Paris were holding a contest to nominate "Miss Cinderella of 1951"-the girl with the smallest feet-Madame de Siva left her tenement in Montmartre and jumped aboard the Pumpkin Coach...
...critics rose handsomely to the occasion. Said L'Aurore: "The Revanche of Ruth Page is one of extravagance based on good taste." Le Figaro: "A beautiful spectacle." Franc-Tireur: "The choreography is so ingenious and so expressive that none of the sharp turnings of fortune in the drama escape...