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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operas, but would draw crowds for only about ten performances as compared with 30-odd for the Italian favorites. This year the Met is enjoying full houses (at about $19,000 a night) for its Rigoletto and La Boheme, while, even with Soprano Harshaw, performances of Tann-häuser and Walkure find about 10% of the seats empty...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Tannhäuser, with Vinay, Harshaw, London...
...being wicked"). Roberta Peters as the imprisoned Princess was so appealing visually and vocally that it was hard to believe she had raced to the TV studio straight from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, where she had sung the young shepherd role that evening in Tannhäuser. Baritone John . Raitt confidently managed the always difficult job of making a masculine hero of Prince Charming, and top honors in the superb cast went to Sir Cedric Hardwicke as the wonder-working Golux who came by his magical power because he was the "son of a witch." There was also...
...often suggested is to eliminate the middlemen between factory and consumer, thus save the profits that wholesalers and jobbers exact along the route. Many makers of industrial goods have already done this: more than 75% of the goods industry itself buys (e.g., machine tools) goes direct from factory to user. In some lines, however, the trend is in the other direction. Makers of business machines, who used to sell direct, are now selling part of their line across retail counters...
Traveling Secretary. For traveling businessmen, Travel Talk, Inc. put coin-operated Dictaphone machines into trial operation in Cleveland and in London, Ont. For 50? the user can dictate into the machine for 15 minutes, gets a Dictabelt record and a stamped, airmail envelope to send it to the home office for transcribing. Travel Talk expects to have 2,000 machines installed within two years...