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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Die Walküre, with Helen Traubel, Max Lorenz and Rose Bampton...
...just the right proportions of garlicky bad taste and more than Oriental splendor which (plus Technicolor) add up to a Hollywood dream of heaven-an M-G-M supermusical. Somewhere in this mixture-as-before is a version of the careers of Richard Rodgers and the late Lorenz Hart, preserved from too much resemblance to reality throughout...
Twenty-three years ago Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart wrote a light romantic song called "Mountain Greenery." It became their first hit. It was--and still is--a striking tune, and there is something about its rhythm and temp that is characteristic of the dance tunes of the Twenties. So when Rodgers wrote, for "Allegro," a number that spoofed the collegiate concept of dancing in the Twenties, he decided to use the music of "Mountain Greenery" as his theme. Consequently, one of last winter's more popular theatrical wisecracks said that "Mountain Greenery" was the best song in "Allegro...
...share buxom Helen Traubel's Wagnerian roles (so that Traubel could concertize for half the season), the Met had imported a six-foot, 200-pound German soprano named Erna Schleuter. Opposite her, as Tristan in the season's first Tristan und Isolde, was German Tenor Max Lorenz, who had not been heard at the Met since...
...that Oklahoma! brought them together (though they had known each other casually for years). Hammerstein's towering calm and Rodgers' agile dynamism nicely complement each other. Both agree that their partnership is a "perfect marriage." Rodgers, who for 25 years had worked with the late, absent-minded Lorenz Hart, is continually amazed by Hammerstein's punctualness (says a friend: "He is the only man I know who can tell you where he will be next August third...