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Between concerts in Kansas City, the Metropolitan Opera's Helen Traubel gave a progress report on her mystery novel Murder at the Met, scheduled for publication next year. "I have, oh, about 40 or more pages typed already. I hunt and pick at it and the process is very laborious, because I first write it out in longhand. I make notes on incidents and angles in the plot, then work it out in writing...
...Metropolitan Opera's Helen Traubel sounded a Wagnerian note for her home town when she announced that she had bought into the St> Louis Browns, perennial sad sacks of the American League. The deal was no gamble, said she: "I know they are going to do something . . . This is an investment in faith and in sentiment...
...Symphony (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Soloist: Soprano Helen Traubel...
...Soprano Traubel had written her 5,500-word, six-installment mystery in dressing rooms and train compartments while on tour last fall. Unlike her heroine, Soprano Traubel had to drug nobody to get her story before the public. The Associated Press heard about it, snapped it up for distribution to the 200-odd papers which regularly use its serial-story service...
With The Ptomaine Canary scheduled to appear in papers as far apart as Amsterdam and Tokyo, Writer Traubel was dickering with Simon & Schuster for publishing rights to a second mystery, to be called (when written) Murder at the Met. Who was going to be done in this time, the author declined...