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Overanxious. Although one of the Met's most imposing casts surrounded Contralto Anderson, the performance was full of flaws. Tenor Richard Tucker growled out notes that were too low for him, Soprano Zinka Milanov let her voice swoop and squawk through Act II, and when she flipped a disguising shawl over her face, she looked so much like an animated teacozy that the audience snickered. Only Roberta Peters' pearly coloratura and pert presence were thoroughly pleasant. But for Marian Anderson the evening was a soaring personal triumph. There were eight curtain calls. "Anderson! Anderson!" chanted the standees...
...varsity squawk team easily best M.I.T., 8 to 1, yesterday on the Toch courts for their second straight intercollegiate victory. The Crimson will be bost and favored to best Wesleyan Saturday...
...Vishinsky was sailing for home May 5 on the Queen Elizabeth. Was it adieu or just au revoir? The New York Times frontpaged a report that he was ill, weary, tired of the U.S. and eager to retire. He is nearing 71. Vishinsky himself would not comment (except to squawk that the Times, which said he was 71, never got the facts right), but he is reportedly resentful that he was not invited to Geneva, which, more than the Berlin Conference, concerns subjects supposedly his specialty, such as Korea...
...Paris Opera people like the score he sent them. The trouble is, there's so much noise. At the garage next door, they are always gunning engines and throwing tin cans around; when he goes for a walk, small boys follow him into the quietest parks and squawk their little tin horns. How can a man write music in such conditions...
...behind this activity is five-ten and well built. His personal trademarks are a bow tie, a gleaming white shirt, and a guttural voice which rises with his intensity of expression until it approximates a squawk. Dunlop is basically a scholar and teacher, but he has an intense desire to merge the practical world with the academic. He likes to quote Whitehead: "It is the union of passionate interest in detailed facts with equal devotion to abstract generalization which forms the novelty in our present society...