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Metropolitan Opera Soprano Helen Traubel arrived in Manila knowing full well that mangoes give her hives, but nevertheless indulged in the tempting forbidden fruit. Result: a severe rash which closed both eyes for two days and forced the postponement of a scheduled concert at Bacolod City...
...singing tour of Korea, Metropolitan Opera Soprano Helen Traubel was flabbergasted at the eager, enthusiastic response when she asked a G.I. audience in Seoul if she could give them "just one little Wagnerian aria." Said she: "I thought you'd prefer Betty Hutton, and I'm a far cry from that." Georgia's Governor Herman Talmadge, recently elected chairman of the Southern Governors Conference, announced that South Carolina's Governor James F. Byrnes would act as head of a conference group which will try to "present the Southern viewpoint to the nation." Said Talmadge: "Good public...
...Tokyo, on a concert tour, Metropolitan Opera Soprano Helen Traubel announced that she would detour to Korea to sing Christmas carols to the troops...
...Nineties (Helen Traubel; Victor LP). Wagnerian Soprano Traubel has a big reputation, a big voice. She scales the voice down pretty far for the old pulse-bumpers like A Bird in a Gilded Cage, My Mother Was a Lady, Waiting for the Robert E. Lee. The job could have been done with more authority by somebody closer to the idiom...
...Miss Traubel's wonderful voice." one critic wrote, "has helped to heal the wounds of seven unpleasant years." In Tokyo, Crown Prince Akihito attended, asked for the Brahms Lullaby and got it. In Osaka, a Japanese opera singer rushed up to thank her. announced with invincible Japanese courtesy: "Now I know what singing is. Hereafter I shall devote my time to painting." The Traubel personality got across too. Glowed a delighted Japanese woman: "She is so big and broad. It was such a wonderful sight...