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Soprano Kirsten Flagstad and Tenor Lauritz Melchior, who are none too fond of each other professionally, sang Tristan und Isolde one night last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera. This popular team had impersonated Wagner's potion-bibbing lovers many a time before. But this time Tristan was an event. In the pit was the Met's first U. S.-born, U. S.-trained conductor, sandy-haired, bespectacled Edwin McArthur...
...your dial) 7:30Concert Master. "Tristan and Isolde," Act II Complete and Excepts Act III. 8:45 What It Takes to Be Group I--Bull Session. 9:00 Professor Quiz in Person. 9:30 9 O'Clock Jump. 10:00 Concert Hall. Shostakovitch Symphony No. 1 and music Mozart. 10:45 Behind the Seenes in Cambridge with Captain Triel, News
Refusing his half of the $25,000 offered by Count Marc de Tristan for the return of his three-year-old son, broad-shouldered Cecil Wetzel (who has three children) did a turn at a Los Angeles theatre instead, giving an account of the rescue (TIME, Sept. 30). He remarked: "I've got kids of my own." He netted $2,000. Winding up in San Diego (with business terrible): "I'll never go on the stage again...
...child's mother, beauteous, 26-year-old Countess Jane de Tristan (heiress as Jane Christenson to West Coast shipping and lumber fortunes), waited for the second letter. None came. Police kept hands off, to allow Louis S. Gates, the Countess' stepfather and president of Phelps-Dodge Corp., to get in touch with the kidnapper. But 24 hours went by and nothing happened. The hours were black and long for the de Tristans...
Friends brought champagne to the de Tristan house, and there were sounds of thankful revelry by night. FBIman Pieper, who had the honor of announcing the solution of the 186th of FBI's kidnapping cases, could now go on with his interrupted lecture...