Word: metropolitane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months the Metropolitan Opera had endured the barbs of its critics (TIME, Sept. 6 et seq.) with hardly a whimper. Last week, during an intermission of a nationally broadcast performance (and a good one) of The Marriage of Figaro, Met Board Chairman George A. Sloan finally started hurling the barbs back. Some fell in the target area; a few made bull's-eyes...
Harvard's squash team dropped a close match 3 to 2 yesterday to the Boston YMCA in Metropolitan League Class "A" competition...
...varsity squash team will have its last workout before exams today when it meets the Boston YMCA squad in a Metropolitan League Class "A" match...
...Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, with Bidu Sayao, Jarmila Novotna...
...open letter to Santa Claus (alias Billy Rose). All that Composer-Critic Thomson wanted in 1949 (from the hands of Producer Rose): "A really modern [medium-sized] operatic repertory theater ... a quality operation." As for grand opera, said Thomson: "Leave all those outsize 19th Century works" to the Metropolitan, "till they and the Met collapse together...