Word: metropolitane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little after 7 p.m. when the phone rang. The voice on the other end was breathless: Could Miss Varnay get down to the Metropolitan Opera House at once? Helen Traubel was ill and the Met had to have a new Isolde right away. An hour later, Astrid Varnay, hastily bewigged and costumed, but with no spare time for even a few warm-up scales, was ready to go on stage...
...Noose Hangs High--Abbott and Costello are window-washers. At the Metropolitan. Last...
...Fleets of borrowed tractors, sanitation trucks, snowplows removed 99 million tons of snow, and opened 5,000 miles of streets. He created a successful agency for mediating labor disputes. He engaged in an uphill battle to encourage housing construction. The new trend: great groups of apartment houses like the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town. After backing and filling for months, he screwed up his courage to raise subway fares from a nickel to a dime...
Daughter of Metropolitan Opera Manager Edward Johnson, Fiorenza was born in Florence, educated in Europe and the U.S. She speaks French and Italian fluently, finds both an asset in her barnstorming. "Did you know," she asked, "that there are 5,000 Italians in the Soo? They love to hear their language spoken...
...scratching out only a few bars a day in his modest Los Angeles home. His great enthusiasm is opera: he has written four, but none has ever been published. One of them, Troubled Island, with a libretto adapted from a play by Poet Langston Hughes, was rejected by the Metropolitan, says Still, because it called for an all-Negro cast. "They never heard of makeup, I guess...