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...Except for Them . . ." Among the chief assets inherited by Rudolf Bing is the glamorous tradition. Still lurking in the shadows of the old gilt and plush house are the ghosts of the Met's hallowed past, when Sembrich, Lilli Lehmann, the De Reszkes, Melba, Caruso, Farrar and Chaliapin graced the stage, and Gustav Mahler and Arturo Toscanini ruled...
Divorced. By Rosa Melba Ponselle, 53, longtime (1918-37) Metropolitan Opera diva: Carle Andrew Jackson, 45, son of Howard Wilkinson Jackson, onetime mayor of Baltimore; after 13 years of marriage, no children; in Baltimore...
Milan's La Scala has been going for 171 years. And for most of that time it has been one of the world's greatest opera houses. Its audiences had heard premieres of the operas of Donizetti, Bellini, Rossini, Meyerbeer, Verdi, Puccini. The greatest singers-Patti, Melba, Caruso, Chaliapin, Gigli-all graced its stage. From 1921 to 1929, under Arturo Toscanini, La Scala seemed to have reached a golden plateau. But last week even the proudest Milanese were admitting that something was very wrong with their great opera house...
Murderer at Large. Freckle No. 2 was Fort Worth's 80-room Melba ($28,000); No. $ was Hilton's first Waldorf-in Dallas-which he bought with the help of a syndicate of friends. In deal No. 4, he bought Fort Worth's Terminal Hotel with two partners and learned that there were more dangers for a hotelman than the complaints of dissatisfied guests. One of his partners, D. E. Soderman, thought he was being cheated, stalked down the third partner and shot him dead. When Soderman got out of jail, he phoned Hilton and asked...
While the balcony guests ate ice-cream sandwiches, the downstairs crowd ate Surprise Monteux, a concoction of Danish spongecake, French vanilla bisque, raspberry melba sauce and chopped walnuts sprinkled with brandy. It was no surprise to Gourmet Monteux himself; he had had a sample in advance, and some had even been air-expressed to friends.* But he forked away with a will (see cut). Said "he: "Peach melba, pah! Nobody will talk about it again...