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That happened a fortnight ago. Last week an even bigger part fell vacant -Die Walküre's Brünnhilde. Helen Traubel, herself pinch-hitting for Kirsten Flagstad (immured in Norway for the duration), took cold. Astrid Varnay found herself dressed up again ; this time in a red wig, a hand-me-down cuirass and tunic of one of the Valkyrie maids, a man's heavy helmet. Again the debutasters were amazed...
...rebellious Norway Kirsten Flagstad told reporters she was staying there by choice, to be with her family. She has refused to sing publicly. // Sally Rand turned up two hours and 15 minutes late for a personal appearance at Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., found 13,800 soldiers had gone off to bed. // Canadian Air Marshal William A. ("Billy") Bishop's son, Arthur, 18, enlisted in the R.C.A.F. // Robert Hopkins, 20, son of Harry Hopkins by his first wife, volunteered for a year's Army service, with the O.K. of both his divorced parents. // Millionaire Private Paul Mellon waived...
Like a cellar-sitting baseball club looking for a pitcher and a catcher, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera last week was in the market for an Isolde and a Brünnhilde. The Met needed a top-notch heavyweight soprano to sing these Wagnerian roles, pinch-hitting for Kirsten Flagstad, now immured in her native Norway until the war ends (TIME, June...
...need is more imperative economically than artistically. Chief mainstay of the box office for the past six years have been Soprano Flagstad and gusty, barrel-built Danish Heldentenor Lauritz Melchior. Almost always the pair sold out the house with their hefty love-making in Tristan and Isolde, their caroling and ho-yo-to-ho-ing in the Ring operas. Ordinarily there would be on the Met's Wagnerian bench two sopranos who could take Flagstad's place as Melchior's teammate. But last week it appeared that neither of these would be fully available...
...letter from Kirsten Flagstad's husband to her manager revealed that she will not return to the U.S. from Kristiansand, Norway, for the coming season. To be scratched are $125,000 worth of bookings...