Word: mets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...American business. Left-wing Italian newsmen heckled and flustered him. Government ministers, explaining land redistribution, stared when he cut them short with "I'm not interested in politics. I want facts. It's strictly a business proposition." Washington heard that Zellerbach had antagonized just about everyone he met, that he was ripping into left, center and right for not seeing things the way Americans do. He antagonized a lot of Italians by telling them that land reform was bad because it would decrease production. This, he said, was just his personal opinion; Italians had a hard time distinguishing...
...were never quite married," explained Walter Surovy, manager-husband since 1939 of handsome Met Mezzo-Soprano Rise Stevens. "We had a marriage certificate and tore it into pieces . . . We decided to remain in a state of courtship . . . We have violent fights and make violent love...
...France, and a series of German counts, Italian dukes and British businessmen made porcelain manufacture a thriving industry-and something of an art. Then, as now, porcelains were valued more for their sentimental qualities than for their measure of esthetic worth, but sometimes they had both. The Met's figure of a girl frightened by a snake, done at Höchst about 1770, might be ill-proportioned, but no one could miss its rococo liveliness. The flowery Music Lesson, modeled at Chelsea from a painting by François Boucher (see cut), and the Sevres portrait...
...sets for his operas in his Los Angeles home. Some of the operas he junked as not good enough, but he saved four. A few years ago, the Metropolitan turned down his favorite, Troubled Island, with a libretto by Negro Poet Langston Hughes, because it called for something the Met couldn't assemble from its own roster-a large number of Negroes among the supporting cast. Says Still: "I have been patient; others would have given up, but I have exercised an enormous amount of determination...
...City Opera's energetic little Director Laszlo Halasz had pulled out all the stops to put on Troubled Island; he had Haitian Jean Leon Destine and his troupe to do the voodoo dances. He would have had to look far for a better baritone than the Met's burly Robert Weede to sing the lead role of Jean Jacques Dessalines, the Haitian slave who made himself (in 1804) an emperor, then a tyrant, only to be duped by his mistress and shot in the back. With Marie (The Medium) Powers as the rejected wife who came back faithfully...