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...they help keep it glittering. The Met got a third of its funds from radio fans in its last appeal for help. Curious to know its radio fans' taste in opera, the Met asked 123,000 of them to pick their favorite operas. The choices: 1) A'ida, 2) Carmen, 3) La Traviata. Among operas less frequently heard, listeners picked Hansel and Gretel, Boris Gudunov, and Der Rosenkavalier. (The Met promised to broadcast all six next year.) Notably unchosen: Wagner...
...Americans can rightfully share the guilt felt by Mary Ida Burnite...
...Ida Cantor, wife of pop-eyed Eddie, was scared pop-eyed but only "slightly injured" in a three-part auto accident: the Cantor car was first struck by a furniture van, then kettle-drummed by 40 bales of hay toppling from a truck...
...good time on this ship I ought not to take money for running it." Next day: "I wouldn't take this job again at five times the pay." The crew loved him. The Captain had two distractions: his $200 guitar, on which he played (badly) such tunes as Ida and Wishing and Nobody...
When Crisco Cooking Talks clicked over New York City's WExF, it was expanded (in 1925) into a network series conducted by Home Economist Ida Bailey Allen. By 1930 P & G strongly suspected that radio was here to stay. Looking around for someone to head its radio department, company officials decided that the copy department chief might qualify. Handsome William McCreary Ramsey II turned out to be a good choice...