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...rude hut. The three kings, traveling toward Bethlehem, ask lodging for the night. The desperately needy mother tries to steal some of their gold as they sleep, and is caught redhanded. As he did in The Consul, Menotti then makes his story point with dramatic directness. Sings King Melchior (Baritone David Aiken...
...Show (Sun. 6 p.m., NBC). Guests: Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Ed Wynn, Lauritz Melchior...
Amidst loud cries of wounded pride and outrage, the new manager proceeded to drop 39 singers, including hitherto sacrosanct Heldentenor Lauritz Melchior, 60, whose wanderings from the score had been the bane of Met conductors for years. There were wild charges that Manager Bing, Vienna-born and German-trained, would try to force even more of the heavy dumpling of Wagner down the throats of audiences that are notably partial to lighter Italian and French fare. (Actually, Bing has little enthusiasm for Wagner.) When he signed famed Soprano Kirsten Flagstad to appear at the Met for the first time since...
Five Years. Two days after the first R.O.K. and U.S. troops entered the city, Pyongyang began to settle down again to the business of daily living. In the thoroughly looted City Hall, Colonel Archibald W. Melchior, a civil-affairs officer, struggled to organize a provisional city council out of a hastily assembled group of what he hoped were Pyongyang's leading citizens. Melchior explained how he had chosen his council: "We were sitting on some logs by a foot bridge when we saw a Korean walking toward us. Since he was well-dressed we collared him and told...
Through an interpreter of indifferent fluency, Colonel Melchior advised the new councilmen to set up municipal police, a rice distribution system and a weapons dump to take care of the thousands of arms abandoned by the retreating Communists. The councilmen clearly had no idea of what they were supposed to do or how to do it. One of the colonel's aides smiled wanly and said, "It's the same story all over again. We just don't have properly trained people. If we had just six Americans who could speak fluent Korean we could make something...