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...Metropolitan Opera in a bare-shouldered black evening dress that prompted the Daily News to headline: MRS. VP'S STRAPLESS GOWN KO'S TOWN. Visiting backstage after the Veep rejoined her, she obligingly posed for cameramen and confided to Tristan und Isolde Stars Helen Traubel and Lauritz Melchior: "What the boys want is some Hollywood cheesecake from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Entrances & Exits | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Carnegie Hall (Tues. 8 p.m., ABC). Guest: Lauritz Melchior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Dec. 12, 1949 | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...other ways: nobody stood on his head nor did any of the ladies put their feet on the tables. Before the curtain went up there were ovations for arriving celebrities, Federal Judge Harold R. Medina, dapper little U.N. General Assembly President Carlos P. Romulo, Tenor and Hollywood Actor Lauritz Melchior ("Ahhh, I'm grateful to the movies. I am discovered as a glamour boy before it is too late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fragrant Cheddar | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...People (Fri. 8:30 p.m., NBC Simulcast). Guests: Lauritz Melchior and Nobel Prizewinner Dr. Hideki Yukawa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Nov. 21, 1949 | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

...Manhattan police court, the Metropolitan Opera's Lauritz Melchior helped to win dismissal of a complaint against the Korn Kobblers, a band of zany musicians. The police charge: the band had been riding along Broadway, making "unnecessary noise" with instruments that included "a pipe, a washboard and something that looked like an inverted spittoon." Testified Melchior: some musicians, like Wagner, are simply ahead of their time. He assured the judge that to his sensitive ear, the Korn Kobblers were "expressing themselves in true American folk music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 14, 1949 | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

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