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Season-ticket subscribers, who buy their season's supply of opera without knowing what they are getting, were beginning to wonder. The Met had stars who could both sing and act-Melchior, Tagliavini, Traubel, Albanese, Pons, Pinza. Four out of the six had yet to be heard this season. Some stars whom season subscribers paid to see now put in only two or three "prestige" performances a year to keep their names bright for the movies and the cigarette ads, the guest appearances on Sinatra programs, and the fat recording contracts...
...dilapidated, 20-year-old scenery for the Ring will be new sets by Broadway Designer Lee Simonson. Some scenes will be done for the first time with screen projections, an economy trick borrowed from the New York City Opera Co. Most of the glamorous old stars-Pinza, Pons, Traubel, Melchior-are back, and 14 new singers, six of them homegrown...
Sometimes Amiable. O'Connell has his favorites and devotes most of his book to them: Rachmaninoff, Traubel, Monteux, Rubinstein, Stokowski, Koussevitzky. Of these for the most part he writes amiably, if not profoundly. He recalls the way Conductor Pierre Monteux won over the Philadelphia Orchestra at a rehearsal: "Gentlemen, I know that you know this piece backwards, but please do not let us play it that...
...Metropolitan's Richard Bonelli (voice), England's Griller Quartet (chamber music) and Composer Ernest Bloch (music craftsmanship) are on the faculty. Sponsors include Pierre Monteux, Artur Rodzinski, Bruno Walter, Yehudi Menuhin, Artur Rubinstein, Laurence Tibbett, Helen Traubel, Lotte Lehmann and Joseph Szigeti. Hollywooders Darryl Zanuck, Ronald Colman, Alec Templeton and Jeanette MacDonald chipped in scholarships...
...right. Ethel Barrymore, 67, picked the St. Louis Cards and the Boston Red Sox to win pennants again. Actress Jinx Falkenburg was crowned 1947 Radio Sweater Girl by the National Knitted Outerwear Foundation, which picked Nina Foch as Hollywood Queen. The New York Yankees crowned Operatic Soprano Helen Traubel Miss Symphonic Matinee of 1947 and gave her an autographed baseball. Veteran Muralist Dean Cornwell reported after a coast-to-coast tour that in good looks "suburban girls lead city girls," and have "better developed breasts, more streamlined figures ... a lasting, healthy bloom to their skin. . . ." Sweden's 88-year...