Word: metropolitane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is merely a conventional stage production modified by equally conventional movie devices. It is good to see singers at close range when they are as engaging to look at as most of these Italian opera stars. All of them are more than adequate within their tradition, notably the Metropolitan's Ferruccio Tagliavini (the Count), handsome Tito Gobbi (the Barber), the smoothest actor, and Comedian Italo Tajo who, as the guardian's villainous henchman, suggests a demented Lionel Barrymore...
...York, far from the quarrel, talkative, companionable Niemeyer will not speak of politics. With Old Teacher Le Corbusier (also busy on U.N. planning), he prefers to gawk at Manhattan's cluttered masonry like any visiting fire man. The Niemeyer opinion of Rockefeller Center-"good"; of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s great 11,250-family Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town projects on the East River-"commercial, crowded, all brick and no glass...
Eugenic Pacelli, Pius XII, Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province, Sovereign of the State of the City of the Vatican, rises punctually at 6:30 every morning. He throws open the window of his bedroom (on the third floor of the Vatican Palace) looking out on St. Peter's Square, and with hands crossed, prays. His is a busy day, so this first prayer is brief. He turns back...
Married. Nino Martini, 42, short (5 ft. 7), tall-voiced (high F) Metropolitan Opera tenor; and Nancy Maloney Tafel, 26; he for the first time, she for the second; in Stamford, Conn...
...health of U.S. children has never been better. The death rate of children (age i to 14) is at a record low. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. reports that in the past 15 years the child death rate has dropped 60% (see chart...