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...Helen Traubel was warned before she went to Japan that the Japanese prefer instrumentalists to vocalists. Moreover, they could hardly be expected to understand the words of her Wagner and spirituals. But husky Soprano Traubel had full confidence in the effect of her big voice. An old baseball buff,* she answered that she would throw her voice "like DiMaggio throws a ball," and she was sure that the Japanese would "catch it." In 26 concerts in a dozen cities, Soprano Traubel had the Japanese fielding every note...
Reappearing Silver. The Imperial's rooms were opened to all comers, at rates ranging from $7 to $30 a day for a room, and almost immediately were booked until late summer. (Among the early reservations: John D. Rockefeller III, Opera Star Helen Traubel.) Its famed Peacock Room, hung with the season's first cherry blossoms and paper lanterns, overflowed with bowing Japanese-including Emperor Hirohito's daughter-who ate from new silverware and fine china that has been brought from hiding...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). G¨otterd¨ammerung, with Svanholm, Traubel...
Just before a scheduled concert with the Dallas Symphony, Wagnerian Soprano Astrid Varnay got a phone call from the Metropolitan Opera in Manhattan. Soprano Helen Traubel was ill. Could Miss Varnay come to the rescue? Miss Varnay finished her concert and grabbed a plane, arrived at the Met at 6 p.m., rehearsed until the 7:30 curtain rose on Gotterddmmerung and her Met debut as Briinnhilde...
...Star Revue (Sat. 8 p.m., NBC). Jimmy Durante, with Helen Traubel...