Word: verna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve years, sometimes collaborating with his writer wife, Verna Arvey ("she takes over where I fail to function"), he has toiled away on the composition of seven operas. A slight, sloe-eyed man whose hobby is turning out toys for his two children, he even fashioned miniature sets for his operas in his Los Angeles home. Some of the operas he junked as not good enough, but he saved four. A few years ago, the Metropolitan turned down his favorite, Troubled Island, with a libretto by Negro Poet Langston Hughes, because it called for something the Met couldn...
...VERNA T. WRIGHT Saco, Mont...