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Married. Blanche Thebom, 33, mezzo-soprano who made the grade from a Baptist choir loft in Canton, Ohio to the Metropolitan Opera House; and Richard E. Metz, 38, Manhattan banker; he for the second time; in Manhattan...
...insure more thorough rehearsing, he had been talking to the singers about spending more time at the Met. Most of them, he said, including Tenors Jussi Bjoerling and Set Svanholm, Sopranos Astrid Varnay and Dorothy Kirsten, Contraltos Blanche Thebom and Risë 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...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2-5 p.m., ABC). Aïda, with Soprano Stella Roman, Tenor Set Svanholm, Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom, Baritone Leonard Warren...
...sapete from Cavalleria Rusticana, helped by modern engineering, are improvements over most of the collectors' classics from the Golden Age. She also teams with the Met's Margaret Harshaw in a duet from Norma, and with Jan Peerce in the Miserere from // Trovatore. Others: Kerstin Thorborg, Blanche Thebom, Eleanor Steber, Alexander Kipnis...
Then, early last year, everything happened at once. She sang at Town Hall; the Met rushed over with a contract. Hollywood's Gregory Ratoff began looking for what he called a touch of "class" for his cinema biography of Composer Ernest R. Ball; two weeks later, Thebom was in Hollywood singing Mother Machree and Dear Little Boy of Mine. The cameras caught her twice, briefly, but she added the necessary class to the movie called Irish Eyes Are Smiling...