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...Golden Horseshoe, the place usually reserved for visiting statesmen and royalty, sat a small, aged lady who had once been a washerwoman in Philadelphia. Her name was Anna Anderson. As a girl, her daughter dreamed of singing in this great gilt and plush house. Now, at 52, Contralto Marian Anderson was realizing the dream. The first Negro singer to appear at the Metropolitan, she was making her debut in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera...
...Britain. His appearance is a little belated. London has kept charges d'affaires in Peking for nearly five years. They have spent most of the time cooling their heels in the waiting rooms of petty functionaries. CJ Prepared to receive two delegations of British businessmen, representing such gilt-edged capitalists as the Federation...
Carol Fox and Lawrence V. Kelly, both in their 20s, were determined to break the jinx which has blighted Chicago opera ever since Sam Insull's gilt-edged company folded in 1932. They formed a new company called the Lyric Theater, got free use of the old costumes and scenery, scrounged funds. Says Soprano Callas, whose fee is a strictly guarded secret: "I liked the way they did things. Helping to do opera in Chicago gives me so much more pleasure than singing in the old. stuffy opera houses. Of course I am well paid. Why shouldn...
Next day the Britons gawked at a lavish agricultural exhibit, where Bevan peered dourly at the gilt-and-gingerbread buildings, commenting: "Pure Victorian. All show. This is the Victorian age of Russia. An immense show of wealth, concealing poverty. The landau at the door, the servants in the attic." At lunch there were long silences between toasts, broken at last by Attlee, who abruptly asked: "How do you get your milk in Moscow?" The Russians told them, in a laborious hum of translation, broken by the clear, social-worker voice of Dr. Edith: "I'm not interested in yield...
Italy's powerful but ponderous Christian Democratic Party, gathered in convention in sweltering Naples last week, showed signs of new vigor, new spirit, new determination-even a new direction. In the gilt-and-red-velvet San Carlo Opera House (not air-conditioned), 703 delegates, plus party bigwigs and hangers-on, listened to some 100 speeches over the course of four days. On the top tier of boxes a huge banner read: Il Partito nella Lotta per la Democrazia (The Party in the Struggle for Democracy...