Word: phila
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They number 19 young, talented sing ers, who expertly shake 19 operas-in-English out of their sleeves. Newest Phila delphia stunt is to have a tenor sing the incredible quasi-male operatic roles usu ally warbled by women in tights-Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier, Siebel in Faust, Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Prince Orlofsky in The Bat, Nicklausse in The Tales of Hoffmann...
...amateurs who had been passively for Willkie in the days when his nomination was a political impossibility had found their voice. They would not have organized Willkie clubs, badgered Republican delegates, trekked uninvited to Phila delphia, if the voltage of U. S. political life had not been stepped up by Hitler's conquests. Nor would they have blundered ahead to do the impossible if Adolf Hitler had not plunged through the Low Countries into France...