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Conductor Artur Bodanzky presided diligently over the Metropolitan production. Belgian René Maison proved himself an actor in the role of Leonora's husband. Basso Emanuel List was at his best as the easy-going jailer. But it was Norway's Kirsten Flagstad who did most to make the performance a popular success. She sang the most taxing passages with uncommon skill and ease, acted with a simplicity completely suited to the music. Earlier in the season there were critics who feared for Flagstad's voice, wondered if she were not trying to work it too hard...
...Contralto Gertrud Wettergren is a favorite in her native Sweden. Tenor Charles Kullman (Yale, 1924) has done well for himself in Europe, as has Soprano Susanne Fischer of Sutton, W. Va., who will make her Metropolitan debut as Madame Butterfly. Two of the newcomers are Belgians : Tenor René Maison and Basso Hubert Raidich. Baritone Carlo Morelli is a Chilean, Eduard Habich, a German. Added to the U. S. contingent are Josephine Antoine, Hilda Burke, Charlotte Symons, Helen Oelheim, Julius Huehn, Dudley Marwick, Chase Baromeo, all with stage experience...
...Rand is also attempting to procure the first of the Theatre Francais productions, Moliere's "Precieuses Ridicules," and "La Maison do Moliere," from the new motion picture organization of the Theatre...
Rockefeller Center looked him up in his restaurant at Lynbrook, L. I. where he catered to Morgans, Vanderbilts, Roosevelts. They would let him have space on the ground floor of their Maison Franchise for the finest French restaurant in the U. S. In the 40 years since his first Crepes Suzette melted in the mouth of Edward VII, then Prince of Wales, Henri had known no greater event than the opening of Cafe
Manhattan was overbuilt long before the Rockefellers broke ground for their city-within-a-city. With such notable exceptions as their British Empire Building, Palazzo d'ltalia and La Maison Frangaise their office space could be populated only by inducing tenants to move from Manhattan's other tall towers. The zeal of the Rockefeller renting agents became proverbial. But not until last week did any real estate man publicly voice his opinion of the Rockefeller methods. Then the opinion came from a capitalist who is almost as old as John D. Sr., and almost as philanthropic, who also...