Word: sing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Helen Hume, no Billie Holiday, but with leanings in that direction, will be the vocalist. Unquestionably the low point of her performance if she decides to sing it will be her specialty "Be-Babba-Leba," one of the favorites currently being sung at the "Show Time...
Traubel was five years older than Talley, but when Giulio Gatti-Casazza, general director of the Metropolitan, offered her an audition, she turned it down, saying that she was too young. "I knew I wasn't ready. If the prophet Moses had come down and asked me to sing at the Met I would have said, 'You run your business, I'll run mine.' " She went back to St. Louis and Madame Karst...
...years later, Damrosch called Helen Traubel to New York to sing The Man Without a Country. His opera survived only five performances at the Metropolitan, but Helen Traubel so impressed NBC officials that they offered her a $10,000 contract. Traubel soon decided that she liked neither the music she had to sing nor the way she had to sing it, and tore up the contract...
...years Traubel and Flagstad divided most of the leading Wagnerian roles. In Die Walküre, Traubel sang a dozen Sieglindes to Flagstad's Brünnhildes. The usually aloof Flagstad finally said to Traubel: "I think it is now time we turn this around and I sing Sieglinde and you sing Brünnhilde." The change never came off. Shortly afterwards Flagstad returned to German-occupied Norway...
Traubel likes to sing with Melchior because his size dwarfs hers. To dress her own vast proportions as handsomely as possible, Traubel has all her clothes-including her stage costumes-designed by Hollywood's Adrian. In the sewing room of Adrian's chic pastel salon, there is a headless and barrel-chested, size 46, grey muslin model standing majestically between those of Claudette Colbert, size 32, and Norma Shearer, size 32. Adrian's loose-leaf notebook lists the Traubel specifications after those for "Temple, Shirley." They tell a sizable story: "Bust, 51 inches [Shirley...