Word: peltz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just 20 years ago, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, deciding that it needed a news sheet for its 1,200 members, appointed a brisk little lady named Mrs. John DeWitt Peltz to put it together. The weekly Opera News got under way with no cooperation from the Met, which, even more than it does today, liked to keep its future plans a secret, but the paper chatted about new productions for each week of the Met's then 14-week season, and it survived. Then, through the Saturday afternoon broadcasts, the Guild went on a national basis, soon found itself...
Suffocating Clutter. In 20 years the clutter in Opera News's office on Manhattan's Madison Ave. has grown to the point of suffocation-fading autographed photos of opera stars cover the walls, documents stuff ancient filing cabinets. Editor Peltz's green tin lunchbox sinks into a deeper litter of folders and memos each day, as she tackles the problems of writing about an opera (the broadcast one) 20 weeks a year, year after year. As one example, to keep from repeating itself, Opera News has looked at its most performed opera. Carmen, from just about every...
Izett Was a Scot. To help get the research done for her weekly deadlines, Mary Ellis Peltz relies on an ever-changing relay of would-be writers, young students who serve their operatic apprenticeship with her the way others serve in claques or work as spear bearers, then go on to a semester or two in Europe. For publishable articles they get $15 to $25. In order to thin the ranks of contributors. Editor Peltz subjects them to quick research jobs on what she anachronistically calls "$64 questions." Samples: ¶ Was Gaetano Donizetti (Lucia di Lammermoor) a Scotsman? For years...