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...them by her trained canary, Galli-Curci. The soprano gets in trouble when one of her less celebrated victims unexpectedly dies. Despite its over-cute plot and slapdash style, the tale could count on plenty of readers, since its author was a Met soprano herself, strapping Wagnerian Star Helen Traubel...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Die Walküre, with Helen Traubel and Herbert Janssen...
...with Flowers. He had two telephone conversations with Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel, and gratefully learned that she had changed her mind about quitting the Met (TIME, Feb. 6). Instead, Bing announced, Traubel would sing one Wagnerian cycle next season, Kirsten Flagstad the other. Lily Pons, who is as famed for temperament as for her coloratura, telephoned from a hospital, trilled that she would come by for a chat about her contract as soon as the doctors would let her. Not at all, said Rudi Bing. He dashed off to the hospital himself "with my arms full of flowers...
...retiring Manager Edward Johnson ever since the Met opened last November. This week he was all set to tell what he had seen, and what he was going to do about it. But before he could open his mouth, somebody else stole his headlines: famed Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel threatened to quit at the end of this season...
...management" on her next season's contract. Said Rudi Bing: "The Metropolitan has never, to my knowledge, negotiated as early as January . . ." Even so, he said, he had already put a letter in the weekend mail inviting her to come in and talk about next season. To him, Traubel's action seemed "rather hasty and unfriendly." But perhaps there was another reason for it. One of the things Rudi Bing intended to tell the press this week was that Kirsten Flagstad would sing at the Met again next season. If Traubel, who has been singing the Wagnerian...