Word: strausses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strauss: Fledermaus (Lily Pons, soprano; Ljuba Welitch, soprano; Richard Tucker, tenor; Charles Kullman, tenor; Martha Lipton, mezzo-soprano; John Brownlee, baritone; orchestra and chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 4 sides LP). The Met's hit of the season, minus Patrice Munsel (who has a Victor contract). Recording: good...
...Rowena Strauss: Cabot; Radcliffe News; "Drumbeats and Song...
...Forget. When she arrived for her first rehearsal, awed Met youngsters understood in an electric flash why Puccini and Richard Strauss lavished compliments and roles* on her. It was more than her million-volt personal magnetism. Said Conductor Tibor Kozma: "She works hard, with intensity. No monkey business. And she could give us all lessons in theater...
...from her 63rd birthday, shook her head. "Don't argue with me. I started to sing in public in 1910. After 41 years of anxiety, nerves, strain and hard work, I think I deserve to take it easy. You know that the Marschallin [the aging heroine of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier] has always been one of my favorite parts. The Marschallin looks into her mirror and says, 'It is time' ... I look into my mirror and say 'It is time.'" She was ready to live year-round in her California home, follow...
...head the new Commission on Internal Security and Individual Rights, Truman named an old war horse and respected citizen, retired Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, whose most recent public assignment was U.N. administrator for the abortive Kashmir plebiscite. The other members were of the same high caliber: Miss Anna Lord Strauss, former president of the National League of Women Voters (vice chairman); the Rt. Rev. Karl Morgan Block, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of California; Republican ex-Senator John Danaher of Connecticut; Harvey S. Firestone Jr., chairman of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; William E. Leahy, Washington lawyer; Russell C. Leffingwell, Chairman...