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Night after the Germans pounced on Scandinavia last week, Norwegian Soprano Kirsten Flagstad. Swedish Contralto Kerstin Thorborg, Danish Tenor Lauritz Melchior and German Baritone Herbert Janssen sang together in Wagner's Tannhäuser in Cleveland. Their audience felt a tenseness on the stage. They did not know that Soprano Flagstad had been trying, unsuccessfully, to get in touch by telephone and cable with her husband, daughter, mother and sister in Oslo. The curtain went down on the final swellings of the Pilgrims' Chorus. Flagstad & Co. bowed at something bigger than most opera singers ever see: an auditorium...
...world manufacturer of steel, the U. S. is the leading user of a black, coal-like mineral: manganese (Mn to chemists). An essential for the manufacture of steel and certain alloys - therefore essential for national defense - manganese is more than 95% an imported material. It comes chiefly from Britain's African Gold Coast, the U. S. S. R. (No. 1 world producer), Cuba, India...
...iron plant at Vancouver, Wash., using 6,000 kilowatts the first year (1940-41), 30,000 thereafter. That hiked Bonneville's power contracts (fattened by agreements with municipalities) to 75% of present, 13% of ultimate capacity. Ready for the dotted line last week was a third industrial power user: a chemical maker with a hankering for an initial 2,000 kilowatts...
...houses. Some (Lawrence Tibbett, Julius Huehn) were U. S. singers. Many (Kerstin Thorborg, Karin Branzell, Gertrud Wettergren) were, like Tenor Melchior, Scandinavians. Sturdiest of all these sturdy troupers has been gargantuan, jovial Tenor Melchior, for 14 years the Met's leading Tristan, Siegmund, Siegfried, Lohengrin, Parsifal, Tannhäuser...
...eminent, U. S.-born vocal expert, Mme Charles Cahier, heard him, and wrote the director of the opera that Melchior was really no baritone but a tenor with the lid on. After he had practiced lifting the lid, he was allowed to sing his first tenor role: Tannhäuser...