Word: melchiors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Request Performance (CBS, Sun., 9-9:30 p.m., E.S.T.) has attracted new listeners by presenting famous people in the act of doing something out of character. At the request of its unseen audience, the show has had Charles Laughton giving Donald Duck elocution lessons, Metropolitan Opera Tenor Lauritz Melchior singing One Meatball, Edward Everett Horton mimicking Frank Sinatra, and spud-nosed W.C. Fields delivering a temperance lecture and drinking water (Fields: "Odd-looking stuff, isn't it? Don't they at least put an olive or a cherry...
...Lauritz Melchior, heroic-size Metropolitan Opera tenor, arrived in Denver for a concert, sent his suit to the cleaner's, then found that his baggage had not come, had to receive the press toga-ed in a blanket...
...Lauritz Melchior, Metropolitan Opera tenor, got back from Denmark with a brand-new Commander of the Cross of Danneborg decoration and a story about King Christian's escape hatch (never used). When he was a palace prisoner of the Germans, the King had a secret tunnel built from the palace to the rear of the royal washerwomen's dormitory, at the edge of the grounds...
...kind of body-displayed in a protean series of bathing suits-which you may dream of but aren't inclined to talk about at the breakfast table, and a nice, easy, assured personality to match. For music lovers, insensitive to such carnality, there is Lauritz Melchior, carnal in his own Falstaff-built...
...before, but not the guests of honor. Mrs. McLean's parties are different now. She serves California wine, usually a clear soup, frequently skips the fish course. The Trumans like cards and music, so there will be bridge. Pianist Evelyn Tynor will play, and Tenor Lauritz Melchior will be there...