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...NARROW COVERING (214 pp.)-Julia Siebel-Harcourt, Brace...
Aircraft also had the job of interdicting Axis withdrawals by sea. This was peculiarly an air job, because the Germans were using Siebel motor barges - too shallow in draft to be torpedoed, too well armed to be attacked efficiently by motor torpedo boats' machine guns, too small to be worth risking large naval units for, and fast enough (twelve knots) to cross the Sicilian Channel under cover of dark ness. Aircraft caught some by day, for the Germans were unquestionably trying to get away as much valuable personnel as possible. Late in the week the Axis was estimated...
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...
Vocally sure, also, was graceful young Helen Oelheim, another débutante who did all she could with the absurd role of Siebel, for which she had to dress as a boy, flutter about picking flowers. Back-slapping scene of the week took place in the Grand Central station late that night when Tenor Kullmann rushed through the "Charles Kullmann" specials, shaking hands with his townsfolk to whom he was just plain Charlie...
From Cincinnati to Manhattan came Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Besuner to hear daughter Pearl make her debut as Siebel...