Word: metropolitan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...carry the war to the Japanese homeland; this never happens in the film, and in the actual war the Army Air Forces did some bombing too. If the movie settles the interservice conflict for you, there is a recruiting van full of bluejackets parked in front of the Metropolitan Theater...
Fortunately for most of the weekend invaders, "I Was a Male War Bride" has moved from the Metropolitan. This citadel of fine films now presents "Task Force," starring Gary Cooper," a sweeping cavalcade that sweeps (sic) the world's oceans to bring you the rich, human story of the men who stood by what they believed in--AND THE WOMEN WHO STOOD BESIDE THEIR MEN." Includes secret Navy combat films if that's your idea...
First-nighters (among them: the Metropolitan Opera's General Manager Edward Johnson, some of his staff and stars) started right out applauding H. A. Condell's first-act scenery: his baroque boudoir, hung with Rubensian nudes, could hardly have been more apt. The Marschallin's monologue, sung by Vienna State Opera Star Maria Reining, had them clapping again. But the brightest successes were two U.S.-born girls. One was Virginia Haskins (Sophie), a pert, tiny soprano who made her first hits in the Chicago Opera Co. and on Broadway in Carousel. The other was a shy upstate...
...forlorn hope that dollar-heavy dowagers in the U.S. might be persuaded that London, as well as Paris, can turn out smart women's clothes. But the major part of their mission was far from forlorn. This week, socialites, diplomats and balletomanes were flocking to the Metropolitan Opera House to see them. Even at $9.60 top, not a seat was empty for the U.S. debut of the finest classical troupe west of Moscow: the Sadler's Wells Ballet from London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden...
...Manhattan's Town Hall a few blocks from the Lombardos (see above), an older and more fabled musician was celebrating too. For 74-year-old Léon Rothier, whose bass had boomed through three decades at the Metropolitan Opera, it was just 50 years since his debut at Paris' Comedie Française...