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Soprano Kirsten Flagstad and Tenor Lauritz Melchior, who are none too fond of each other professionally, sang Tristan und Isolde one night last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. This popular team had impersonated Wagner's potion-bibbing lovers many a time before. But this time Tristan was an event. In the pit was the Met's first U. S.-born, U. S.-trained conductor, sandy-haired, bespectacled Edwin McArthur...
...berries at 2? a quart. In high school, young McArthur played the typewriter; his virtuoso prestissimo won him the Colorado championship. Then he turned accompanist and vocal coach, for Ginger Rogers and Ethel Merman as well as for concert artists like John Charles Thomas, Gladys Swarthout and, finally, Soprano Flagstad...
Looking a bit like John Bunny of the early films, acting with the gusto of W. C. Fields, and to everyone's surprise singing beautifully, Basso Baccaloni was rated by critics as the Met's best acquisition since Kirsten Flagstad. He is only 40, but needs no false belly. Just under six feet tall, he weighs a noble 320 Ib.-result of resigning himself to comedy and enjoying the cooking of his Bulgarian wife. Born in Rome, Salvatore Baccaloni sang as a boy in the Sistine Choir. When his voice changed, he resolved to become an architect, would...
Soprano Pons got $445 a week when she started at the Met. Now she earns $1,000 a night, which only Soprano Kirsten Flagstad and Tenor Lauritz Melchior equal. Concerts pay Lily Pons $4,000 apiece. This is success, and Soprano Pons enjoys the symbols of it: dizzy hats, spectacular gowns, never the same twice in succession. Soprano Pons likes chunky aquamarines, emeralds, diamonds. Once in San Francisco, feeling short of jewels, she borrowed $150,000 worth...
...Pons, with her husband, Andre Kostelanetz, on the podium, was once more the summer's best draw, had six major engagements, attracted 60,000 people to Milwaukee's Washington Park, where an orchestra shell was donated by retired Brewer Emil Blatz. Pianist Alec Templeton and Soprano Kirsten Flagstad trailed her, with five dates each. Flagstad drew 225,000 to Grant Park, 20,000 to Manhattan's Stadium, but only 3,000 on a hot night in Philadelphia's Dell. Oscar Levant's fame in Information Please is paying out. He had four engagements, drew...