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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Verdi's Masked Ball, with Peters, Milanov, Tucker...
Overanxious. Although one of the Met's most imposing casts surrounded Contralto Anderson, the performance was full of flaws. Tenor Richard Tucker growled out notes that were too low for him, Soprano Zinka Milanov let her voice swoop and squawk through Act II, and when she flipped a disguising shawl over her face, she looked so much like an animated teacozy that the audience snickered. Only Roberta Peters' pearly coloratura and pert presence were thoroughly pleasant. But for Marian Anderson the evening was a soaring personal triumph. There were eight curtain calls. "Anderson! Anderson!" chanted the standees...
...temporary "take." After a while, the recipient's system develops antibodies against the transplant and it withers away.* A transplanted kidney may serve as a crutch until the patient's own kidneys can recover, as apparently happened in the famed case of Chicago's Mrs. Howard Tucker (TIME, June 11, 1951). But last week Boston surgeons had the chance of a lifetime: to transplant a kidney to the donor's identical twin brother, with every hope of lasting success...
Toast of the Town (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Ed Sullivan, with Sophie Tucker...
...certainly could sing. Next came the first act from La Bohème. The scene was a huge, musty attic with four gay blades romping around. The music was very pretty, and it seemed clear that the stocky fellow in an artist's beret named Richard Tucker was making time with Victoria de los Angeles. This kind of thing, thought the young man, should at least put his date in the right mood...