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Married. Lauritz Melchior, 74, famed Wagnerian tenor now in retirement; and Mary Markham, 40, his onetime secretary, now a top Hollywood booking agent; he for the third time, she for the second; at Melchior's estate near Santa Monica, Calif...
Truth & Beauty. The Middle Ages depicted the Magi as three kings, and even gave them sonorous, Eastern-sounding names-Kaspar, Melchior and Balthasar. In fact, the "kings" are as imaginary as their names. The Magi were simply astrologer-priests, possibly from Babylon, and their number is uncertain; early paintings of the Christmas scene show anywhere from two to seven of them. Scholars are divided about the origin and meaning of the star that lured them to Bethlehem. Many critics dismiss Matthew's account of it as pure myth; Smit believes that the star actually was a major conjunction...
...DREAM DUET (RCA Victor) is not Flagstad and Melchior any more but Anna Moffo and Sergio Franchi. No kidding. Here they sing a syrupy selection (Ah! Sweet Mystery of Life, Sweethearts) and, but for the bad repertory, all but live up to their brazen billing...
...Erich Leinsdorf to the contrary notwithstanding [Aug. 23], we have more first-class Wagnerian singers now than we had in the Melchior-Flagstad era. In the last few years the Metropolitan Opera has offered us such topnotch artists as Birgit Nilsson, Leonie Rysanek, Gladys Kuchta, Inge Bjoner, Regine Crespin and Anita Valkki, sopranos; Jon Vickers, Sandor Konya and Jess Thomas, tenors; Jean Madeira, Nell Rankin and Irene Dalis, mezzos; George London, Hermann Prey, Walter Cassel and Eberhardt Wachter, baritones; and Jerome Hines, Giorgio Tozzi and William Wilderman, bassos...
Died. Maria Hacker Melchior, 59, petite wife of burly Wagnerian Meistertenor Lauritz Melchior; in Los Angeles. A Bavarian silent screen star, Maria Hacker was making a parachute jump for a film when a gust of wind blew her off course and into a garden where she landed directly in front of the startled Melchior. A few months later in May of 1925, she gave up her career to become his devoted Kleinchen (Little...