Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italian towns and villages last week workers attended "feasts of liberty." Fireworks and oratory popped triumphantly. Two thousand anti-Communist soapboxers, doorbell ringers and pamphlet carriers crowded into Rome's shiny, modern Cinema Metropolitan, hoarsely chanting the name of Luigi Gedda. Finally, a brawny, firm-jawed man rose from his seat in the first row and brusquely acknowledged the cheers. He was the chief strategist of Italy's Catholic Action movement; he had just led his followers to a notable victory...
Conductor Zipper had drilled his 86 musicians and some borrowed singers (including the Metropolitan's Regina Resnik) in part I of the fourth act of Verdi's Don Carlos, which had not been performed in New York for 26 years...
...Boston's most treasured rituals is being shown off at the Opera House this week and next. An exhibition of matrons, clothes, and jewelry comparable to a museum display can be viewed daily between the acts of any of the operas which the Metropolitan is putting on during its current stand...
...Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Verdi's Rigoletto, with Patrice Munsel, Leonard Warren, Jan Peerce...
Teachers and principals must realize that so called laziness and stupidity in school children are often "manifestations of fundamental mal-adjustments of the total child," Dr. Thaddeus P. Kursh, clinical director of the children's unit of the Metropolitan State Hospital, claimed Saturday...