Word: ops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trip's most somber moment came when Mr. King visited the Canadian military cemetery at Bergen op Zoom.* It was dark when he got there, in a cavalcade of cars that slithered over slippery roads, but automobile headlights lit up the rows of 1,800 white crosses. The Prime Minister placed a wreath on the central monument. Then, head bared to a cold rain, he walked slowly along the rows, reading the names on the crosses. When he left for London to attend the wedding of Princess Elizabeth, Prime Minister King carried a memory of Canada's fighting...
Beethoven: Quartets Nos. 7, 8 and 9, Op. 59 (Paganini Quartet; Victor, 3 volumes, 26 sides). The new Paganiril Quartet plays the three famed "Rasoumowsky" quartets with competence but without fire. The first one has been done better by the Roth Quartet, and the other two by the Budapest. Recording: good...
...op method of getting around rent ceilings had started over a year ago (TIME, March 25, 1946). Then it had been nipped by OPA's ruling that 80% of the tenants in a building had to agree before a building could be made a coop. Even then, the holdouts could not be evicted for six months to a year. But the new law said nothing about that. It provided that tenants could be evicted if the owner of an apartment or house 1) needed it for himself, or 2) had sold it to someone who needed a place...
Back in Paris after the war, she sneaked backstage between acts of La Bohème at the Opéra-Comique and buttonholed balding Georges Hirsch, head of national French opera houses, told him: "Mr. Rouché thought I would be a wonderful Thaïs." Hirsch was flummoxed. He had never heard of her, and he had taken Jacques Rouché's place, when Rouché was removed as a collaborator. "Does Madame suggest an audition?" asked Hirsch politely. "No," said Edis, "Madame suggests a rehearsal of Manon." She got the rehearsal...
...Opéra Director Hirsch had another surprise coming from Edis. After her performance of Thaïs last week, he went backstage to praise her, said: "Of course, I cannot congratulate you on your first performance of Thaïs. You have sung it, I suppose, many times." Said Edis: "You asked me one day if I had ever sung Thaïs and I said yes. Well, I hadn't-except in my dreams...