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...Angeles, Danish-born, barrel-shaped Singer Lauritz Melchior, who made his Metropolitan debut 21 years ago, finally became a U.S. citizen, with Danish wife Maria. "Now," burbled the 57-year-old heroic tenor to the press, "I will really sing...
...Laurltz Melchior, the Met's heroic tenor, fought heroically through a blizzard to sing in Bloomington, Ind., but it was no use. He tried to fly from Chicago, but the planes were grounded. So he set out by auto. An hour later he was stuck in a snowdrift. Bloomington presently heard from him by phone, too late. He had discovered that he was fighting his way toward Bloomington, Ill., 160 miles away from Indiana's Bloomington...
...Lauritz Melchior, great Dane of the Metropolitan Opera, sang Open the Door, Richard on a Kay Kyser radio show and got a chromatic catcall from the president of the National Association of Schools of Music for "debasing his art." Pooh, retorted jovial Heldentenor Melchior. If the musical stuffed shirts wanted more blatant examples of undignified monkeyshines, he could refresh their memories. Once, he recalled, he sang a hillbilly song on the Fred Allen show; another time, he danced an Apache number in which he impersonated a female who could have mopped up on Briinnhilde...
...Thrill of a Romance," playing on Friday, you get the formula musical, dull, plush, and empty. The main attractions here are Lauritz Melchior singing "Vesti la Giubba" in the lobby of a slick Western hotel, Esther Williams in some submarine contortions, and Van Johnson as his usual creamy self...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5:30 p.m., ABC). Wagner's Die Walküre, with Soprano Helen Traubel, Tenor Lauritz Melchior...