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...Louis Opera Association, signed up first-magnitude stars, scheduled a short season in the spring, another for fall. Last week, with an advance sale of 18,000 seats, St. Louis' brand-new opera opened its first season with a performance of Die Walküre (starring Lauritz Melchior and Marjorie Lawrence). Said the new company's manager, James E. Darst: "Grand opera cannot fail if St. Louis is really a big league town. And we're betting that...
Mechanical cost of each of the four Ring productions is about $2,500. As yet no machinery or stage effect has been devised to make paunchy Tenor Lauritz Melchior or big-womanly Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, and the likes of them, resemble the boyish Siegfried, the maidenly Briinnhilde...
...Lauritz Melchior (Sun. 2 p. m. NBC-Blue). No. 1 Wagnerian tenor is guest soloist with Frank Black's orchestra on RCA's Magic Key program. Other guests: Critic Clifton Fadiman, Actress Helen Claire...
...third edition of this witching work, which last week reached U. S. shores, showed Nazi inquisitors to be more thorough than accurate. Among the prominent "Jewish" musicians listed: Chicago's retiring Yankee Composer John Alden Carpenter; rotund Danceband-leader Paul Whiteman; lusty, kewpie-faced Wagnerian Tenor Lauritz Melchior. Fumed Tenor Melchior, when informed of his nomination: "I am a Dane, without a drop of Jewish blood in me, and I am determined to seek redress...
...statistical services-Standard Statistics, Moody's, Poor's and Fitch's.* In 1936 the Comptroller of the Currency made this custom a requirement in cases when bonds are of doubtful value. Last January a research economist at the University of Chicago with the resounding name of Melchior Palyi took it upon himself to denounce this setup. Said he: "The ruling of the Comptroller has put the 'recognized' agencies into a strategic position which may permit them virtually to control the market. The agencies are under no governmental or other supervision . . . are extremely secretive about...