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...this week. For his Fidelia the maestro drew heavily on the Metropolitan's roster, allotted principal roles to Sopranos Rose Bampton and Eleanor Steber, Tenor Jan Peerce, Baritone Herbert Janssen, Bass Nicola Moscona. At the end of the broadcast, a distinguished audience-including half of Manhattan's top-rank musical celebrities, who had frantically begged their invitations-caught its breath, hoped fervently that the maestro might somehow make a more lasting peace with opera in the U.S. The Toscanini Fidelia would probably rank as the No. 1 event of the musical season...
...occupation Carrel had plenty of money for research under the big Fondation Franfaise Pour L'Etude Des Probleèmes Humains, created for him by Vichy. Last week Carrel declared that his foundation had concerned itself exclusively with scientific studies inspired by his Man the Unknown. But top-rank scientists charged that the foundation had a distinctly pro-Nazi tinge, that its subsidized sociological studies had served as a front for researches in "racism." After Paris' liberation, Carrel was suspended as director of the foundation. Last week famed Chemist Fédéric Joliot, now top...
...Cuevas' entrance only complicated the No. 1 problem of U.S. ballet: an unprecedented scarcity of first-rate dancers. The world of U.S. ballet now contains scarcely enough top-rank talent to supply one really good ballet troupe, let alone three. Ballerinas with real dancing ability have been deserting ballet for Hollywood and Broadway at an alarming rate...
...tycoons, representing, in effect, the U.S. and British movie industries, last week reached an important decision. Instead of fighting each other in world markets - wherein Hollywood now has a virtual monopoly and the British have high hopes - they agreed henceforth to lend each other a helping hand. This was top-rank international business news...
Since Pearl Harbor, the Emperor has all but abandoned sessions with the Privy Council (Inner Cabinet); now he confers constantly with top-rank military leaders, attends all meetings at the Imperial Military Staff Headquarters. The Japanese press has recorded his strict orders that he be awakened at any hour of the night to hear important political or military news. At daily religious ceremonies, he wears the traditional silken robes. But at all other times, he wears his bemedaled uniform, symbolizing Imperial support of the war (TIME...