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...performance of Tristan und Isolde last week drew the biggest crowd of any Tristan in the history of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company. Contralto Doris Doe, a native of Bar Harbor, Maine, made her debut as Brangane, Isolde's henchwoman. But she was not the magnet. It was Goeta Ljungberg, tall, blonde Swedish soprano who arouses more & more enthusiasm each time she sings (TIME, Feb. 1). Her Isolde last week was not a heroic, leather-lunged creature to be heard over all the brasses. It was vocally uneven. But it was an Isolde deeply personal and finely imagined...
German 20d. Friedrich Nietzsche und die deutsche Dichtung. Professor von der Leyen. To be given Tuesday, 3 to 5 o'clock. (XVII, XVIII...
...radio audience, it was briefly exciting ? speeches by NBC's President Merlin Hall Aylesworth and Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath of the Metropolitan, sounds of the orchestra tuning up under Conductor Karl Riedel, echoes of an audience which included many pleased youngsters. Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel was the opera, first whole performance to be broadcast from the Metropolitan. Composer Deems Taylor, official narrator, sat in a little glass booth in one of the grand tier boxes, describing music and action to radiauditors. In another soundproof booth were an expert with score in hand, ready with warnings...
Soon after the onset of Hansel und Gretel came telegrams of praise. Director Giulio Gatti-Casazza, pleased as Punch, had been popping to & from the backstage office of Press Agent William J. ("Billy") Guard, where a receiving set had been installed. Chairman Cravath was impressed. "A miracle! . . ." said Radio Conductor Walter Johannes Damrosch. The engineers who had succeeded in making the whole country (and several further parts of the world) an opera house, said that the old part-wooden Met was much easier to work with than Chicago's handsome new opera house, whose concrete tends to give off bass...
...became inactive Jan. 1. Indiana-Nitag. Should a tariff be placed upon petroleum and its products, hard hit would be Standard Oil Co. of Indiana, big importer. Last week Indiana expanded its foreign markets by acquiring a large interest in Germany's N I T A G (Naphtha Industrie und Tankanlagen Aktiengesellschaft) for $1,100,000. Nitag, a distributing company, handles 420.000 bbl. of petroleum products a year. In future a large part of its needs will be filled by Indiana from its Venezuelan fields and refinery on the Island of Aruba. Last spring Indiana obtained a 50% interest...