Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shopman Douglas, 20, pretty blonde daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was keeping company in London with one of the realm's most eligible nobles: the Marquess of Blandford, 22. They were seen together at dinner, at dancing, and over afternoon milkshakes at the embassy canteen. They were seen together at the movies (where a photographer snapped them seated next to Clement Attlee's son Martin-see cut). What excited the gossips was the hint of a triangle: the tall young Guardsman was supposed to have another girl-Princess Margaret...
Except for two years in the Italian army ("I don't like the killing business. Me, I am afraid"), Tajo has been singing ever since-in Turin, Rome, London, Milan, and in 1946, briefly in Chicago. Now, at 33, he hopes to stay in the U.S., has. already signed with the Met. He is happy that he makes people laugh, but he wants to do more serious roles than Don Basilio or Leporello. Says he: "I do the comic role because I have the nerve. But I like Boris Godunov better...
...days later, plump, curly-haired Dorothy, 26-a soprano hardly anyone in London had ever heard of-found herself in the studio of His Majesty's Voice recording company. The famed star of the Milan Opera, Madame Margherita Grandi, was making a recording of the sleepwalking scene from Verdi's Macbeth. Suddenly, right at the end, Madame Grandi shut her mouth, and Dorothy took over. She sang three notes-F, A flat, and top D flat. For her pains, she got a slight bow from Madame Grandi and 5 guineas ($21.15). Then she went home...
...last week, eight months later, all London seemed to know about it. One of the recording musicians had whispered to a friend, and the friend had told the Daily Express...
From Milan, Madame Grandi assured her British public that she really could sing top D flat herself. "But sometimes," she confided, "I am under such emotion, that it is a help ... if someone can sing it for me." London music lovers did not much like this explanation. It soon developed that Madame Grandi had been under similar emotion at last year's Edinburgh Festival, and had used another ghost, standing in the wings, for the same three notes. How much of this kind of thing went on? Apparently Sir Thomas Beecham, who conducted the orchestra for the recording...