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Among the week's most confusing performers were Singers Nelson Eddy and Lauritz Melchior...
Opera's Melchior said he would probably never sing opera in Boston again, "because . . . Boston would not allow German opera to be given here during the war." He said it was "nothing personal . . . simply a principle ... I believe that art has nothing to do with politics." Three nights later Tenor Melchior sang in concert in Boston, where the Met had given three Wagnerian operas in 1945 and Melchior had sung...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5:45 p.m., ABC). Wagner's Lohengrin, with Helen Traubel, Lauritz Melchior...
...Rhapsody in Blue; Arturo Toscanini conducting Ferde Grofe's Grand Canyon Suite; a medley of Sigmund Romberg show tunes; Vladimir Horowitz playing piano pieces by Saint-Saëns, Czerny and Tchaikovsky; and an album called Two Sisters from Boston, in which the Metropolitan Opera's Lauritz Melchior sings Hollywoodian "arias...
Traubel likes to sing with Melchior because his size dwarfs hers. To dress her own vast proportions as handsomely as possible, Traubel has all her clothes-including her stage costumes-designed by Hollywood's Adrian. In the sewing room of Adrian's chic pastel salon, there is a headless and barrel-chested, size 46, grey muslin model standing majestically between those of Claudette Colbert, size 32, and Norma Shearer, size 32. Adrian's loose-leaf notebook lists the Traubel specifications after those for "Temple, Shirley." They tell a sizable story: "Bust, 51 inches [Shirley...