Word: metropolitane
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...milestone: few Negroes had ever before sung leading operatic roles with white companies. Most great U.S. companies, like the Metropolitan Opera, had never thought twice about such a possibility; "no suitable roles" had long been their stock dismissal of the notion...
...niece's sister, journey to the big city to get some first-hand information. Niece number one manages successfully to conceal the fact that she has been singing and swinging in a Bowery night club for her keep, then makes good her boast of being with the Metropolitan, with the aid of her boss and manager, J. Durante, and the new routine hinted at above...
...Metropolitan District Commission forces have made no progress as yet in their search for a group of 12-to-15 year old boys who pummeled and robbed Edward Henderson '47 in front of the Weld Boat House Thursday night...
Three days earlier 57-year-old Tito Schipa (pronounced skeepa) made his first operatic appearance outside the Axis belt since he left the Metropolitan in 1941. He did Manon at the Opera-Comique. Next fall Schipa plans to make a U.S. concert tour. Schipa is defiant of reporters who want to make something of his wartime singing in Italy. Says he: "I am no Communist! I am no Fascist! I sing good and Mussolini give me a medal! So what...
...average length of life of the U.S. people now exceeds 65 years. So declared the ruminant statisticians of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. last week after cud-chewing their latest (1944) figures. Corollaries...