Word: nights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Today, beyond its teaching staff, Laradon Hall has a registered nurse, a night matron and a dietitian. To get everything started, Joe had exhausted his savings. Boarding students are supposed to pay $140 a month, day students $40. But for parents who cannot afford to pay, Joe has been charging nothing...
...65th opening night, the Metropolitan Opera hoped that "much of the glitter generally associated with the first-night audience [would] be secondary to that on the stage." General Manager Edward Johnson had scheduled an opener that was hard to beat: the late Richard Strauss's sure-fire Der Rosenkavalier, with a cast of "unusual interest," directed by the Met's most brilliant conductor, Fritz Reiner. But last week, when the great night rolled around again, the off stage competition was as usual just too tough...
...unattractive grimacing. Even so, with Veteran Bass Eugene List as Baron Ochs, and with the help of two new imports, Dresden's Coloratura Erna Berger as a pert, brilliant Sophie, and Vienna's Buffo-Tenor Peter Klein as Valzacchi, Der Rosenkavalier added up to an opening-night success...
Manager Edward Johnson could claim with justice that his last opening night before Edinburgh's Rudolf Bing takes over next season (TIME, June 13) was "one of the best." But by the time the first week was over it was evident that the old Met had not noticeably changed its ways: it still had probably the world's best singing, some of the world's most outdated staging and acting...
...Imperial University in Tokyo), married a Japanese girl and became a citizen. Besides his wife and their four children, he supported his wife's entire family, found himself so busy he had little time to complain about life anymore. He taught all day, wrote most of the night. His subject for his last 14 years: Japan...