Word: opera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last year the opera had finished with a $119,000 deficit. "Without Flagstad," said an opera board member, "we might lose...
...guests at a garden party at Buckingham Palace. In a busy week, he also found time to lend his approval to the engagement of his nephew, 26-year-old George Henry Hubert Lascelles, seventh Earl of Harewood, to dark-haired, Austrian-born Pianist Marion Stein, 22. Young Harewood, opera critic for the New Statesman and Nation and a potential heir to the throne (eleventh in line), was so far from kingship that nobody worried much about his marrying a com moner. Last week Miss Stein, a gypsy-faced, beauty whose father works for Boosey & Hawkes, Ltd., music publishers, was meeting...
...opera-loving San Franciscans, it was the nearest thing to an earthquake since 1906. It was bad enough that the trustee of the War Memorial Opera House had refused to let Norwegian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad sing there next season (TIME, July 25). Last week the sponsoring Opera Association Board set off a temblor of its own: if Flagstad could not sing, for the first time in 27 years there would be no opera season...
...heels of San Francisco . . .!" Later, he announced, "I never heard of this Madame Flagstaff till this came up." His opponents howled at his howler. Acting Mayor George Christopher raised his voice: "I don't give a damn about Flagstad. But I don't want the opera to die. I'd sing her roles myself first. Our culture is at stake." He calle'd on the War Memorial board to relent. The American Legion's national headquarters wired that it had nothing against Flagstad. Still the dogged board refused to raise...
Director Mervyn LeRoy has tried halfheartedly to keep the suds from showing, but soap opera, like murder, will...