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The great Giuseppe Verdi's only well-known comic opera, written when he was 80, based on Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, has long been regarded by many critics as his best. But ever since its first performance in 1893, with the late great Baritone Victor Maurel...
For the nonce, the six ruggedly individualistic canners had got together to fight the ban. They were led by one of the big gest of them, a squat, merry ex-fishmonger named Pete Sellen (creator of the famed "Pete's trout-ticklers"). Back in 1917, Pete Sellen decided that...
Bright Triangle. In Sleepy Eye, Minn., Happy Newyear looked back on the holi days with scarcely any pain, felt fit enough to resume his correspondence with Merry Christmas over in Janesville, Wis., and Santa Claus in Marshall, Mo.
On occasion he was merry: downing champagne, toasting Roosevelt and Churchill, charging around the dinner table to touch glasses with one and all. But Stalin showed real emotion only once: when Churchill presented the Stalingrad sword (sent as a gift from King George VI "to the steel-hearted citizens of...
The Merry Widow. Lehar's waltz-drenched operetta revived with opulence and style (TIME, Aug. 16).