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Massenet's Manon is a French opera of more refined and delicate charms than Puccini's booming, Italianate Manon Lescaut, although both are based on the same Abbé Prevost novel. It is a big opera, but for best effect it needs a production with the intimacy of opéra comique-one reason it has never been much more than a singers' showpiece at the Metropolitan (last performance: 1948). Last week, as the only new production of the New York City Opera's spring season, Massenet's Manon got the kind of performance...
...faint voice. Its members: Spanish First Fiddler Antonio Brosa, 44; Belgian Second Fiddler Laurent Halleux, 43; Belgian Violist Germain Prévost, 49; British Cellist Warwick Evans, 56. It took the Pro Arte men four hours to plow from Chicago to Watertown, and once, in a bad skid, M. Prevost's $5,000 viola nearly went through the window. By the time the quartet reached Watertown High School, 700 youngsters, who had stayed after school to hear them, had begun to fidget. Said a 14-year-old to a friend: "Are you gonna stay for this...
...Held Columbus, Ohio, Howard S. Hibbeit, Jr. Columbus, Ohio; Thomas C Holyoke, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Robert H. Houston, Kansas City, Missomi: Robert A. Mack, Cleveland, Ohio; Hemi J. Marshall, Lakewood, Ohio; Richard E. Maxwell, Portland. Oregon; William J. Mosf, St. Paul, Minnetota; Henry P. Noyes, Urbans, Illinois; Edward O. Prevost. Jr., Oakland, California; Thomas R. Roberts, Minneapolis, Minnersota...
...Franke's first appearance on the White House scene, septuagenarian Mr. Ford was trying out Attorney General Homer S. Cummings' bullet-proof Lincoln. With Mr. Ford on a breeze through the tortuous roadways of Rock Creek Park were his son Edsel and two Washington correspondents, Clifford Prevost of the Detroit Free Press and Jay G. Hayden of the Detroit News. Both Mr. Prevost and Mr. Hayden have developed excellent news contacts with Ford Motor Co., and they later were to serve as the only authoritative reporters of a historic two hours in the life of Mr. Ford...
...assiduously cultivated the impression that Mr. Ford had heard Chairman Eccles read off a prepared apologia for the spending spurt, had said little about it, had in general been about as talkative as a clam. Whatever he said to the President, canny Mr. Ford spoke his mind to Correspondents Prevost and Hayden on the way to New York. On his mind, if not on his tongue at the White House, were these appraisals of Franklin Roosevelt and of Roosevelt policy...