Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General Manager Edward Johnson of the Metropolitan Opera, pressed by Atlanta reporters to name his successor after he retires next year, obliged with a list that included Lawrence Tibbett, Lauritz Melchior and Billy Rose, who loves to give widely syndicated free advice...
...such stuff as this that overconfidence is made, and overconfidence can wreak just as much havoc in crew as elsewhere in the realm of sport. Add to this the fact that BU, which has had the whole-hearted backing of the metropolitan press all spring, is definitely out to prove themselves in this race, and you have a potential source of danger...
...institute was organized in the spring of 1946, when the president of Lowell Institute in Boston met with the presidents of Harvard and other colleges in the metropolitan area to discuss the use of commercial broadcasting facilities for an experiment in adult education...
...proceedings with nimble skill, while the Jo Mielziner sets never jam the flow. As the little knucklehead, Mary Martin gives the performance of her career. She merges a gift for comedy with a delightful personality; she sings well, and turns out ballads even better. As the planter, Metropolitan Opera Basso Pinza proves himself an excellent Broadway performer. He has, beyond that, the kind of voice that show business is lucky enough to acquire once or twice in a generation. The whole supporting cast is good, particularly Myron McCormick as an unregimented Seabee...
...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't assemble from its own roster-a large number of Negroes among the supporting cast. Says Still: "I have been patient; others would have given...