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...Wagnerian cycle next season, Kirsten Flagstad the other. Lily Pons, who is as famed for temperament as for her coloratura, telephoned from a hospital, trilled that she would come by for a chat about her contract as soon as the doctors would let her. Not at all, said Rudi Bing. He dashed off to the hospital himself "with my arms full of flowers and a two weeks' supply of charm...
...reason, said her manager, was "the absence of any overtures from the Metropolitan Opera management" on her next season's contract. Said Rudi Bing: "The Metropolitan has never, to my knowledge, negotiated as early as January . . ." Even so, he said, he had already put a letter in the weekend mail inviting her to come in and talk about next season. To him, Traubel's action seemed "rather hasty and unfriendly." But perhaps there was another reason for it. One of the things Rudi Bing intended to tell the press this week was that Kirsten Flagstad would sing...
...Stevens, "have already agreed to work with me . . ." He promised to "make every effort to find the best artists among Americans." But, said he, "where I cannot find them, I will bring in Europeans." Since Edward Johnson's casting assistant, Frank St. Leger, had turned in his resignation, Rudi Bing would do most of the casting himself...
...Said Rudi Bing: "After all, since the Metropolitan is the greatest opera house in the world, it must have been run properly . . . But it must adapt its policy to changing times...
...Stranger. Rudi Bing had other tempting dishes on his menu. While some visitors trudged through grey Edinburgh Castle and peered into ancient Holyrood House, others queued up for tickets for the Busch and Griller quartets and the festival favorite, The Three Estates (TIME, Sept. 20, 1948), the Glyndebourne operas (Mozart's COST fan Tutte, Verdi's A Masked Ball) were already sold out, except for the ?2 seats, which were too expensive for the British...