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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Machines; to Orlando F. Weber, onetime head of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp.; to those sterling spinsters of Manhattan and Newport, R. I., the Misses Maude and Edith Wetmore; to yards of silk and satin; to hothouses of orchids, gardenias and camellias; to bushels of diamonds, emeralds and pearls. They also sang to a few hundred plebeian music lovers roosting in the precipitous galleries who had stood in line, some of them for 15 hours, for their $2 standing room. Thus the Metropolitan Opera once again opened its season...
...background. Its hero was "Riccardo, Count of Warwick, Governor of Boston" in the 17th Century. He tenoriously fell in love with the soprano wife of his "Creole" secretary. After everyone had consulted a blackface sorceress named Ulrica, the Creole joined a conspiracy headed by two ha-ha-ing bassos, also in blackface, named Samuel and Tom. At a masked ball, the Creole killed his boss...
Following nights, the Met noodled through a routine Walküre, a passable Madame Butterfly. Then it presented Samson and Delilah, with its first U. S.GALLERY-GOERS AT THE MET Also present: orchids and diamonds, born temptress in 22 years: slim, dark Risë (rhymes with Pisa) Stevens, 27, of The Bronx. Contralto Stevens proved a notable addition to the Met's strippers (who had heretofore included Sopranos Helen Jepson and Lily Pons) and in the seduction scene gave Samson (barrel-shaped Tenor René Maison) quite a going-over. But critics doubted that the Stevens pleasing midriff...
...comrades, said Dr. Grebanier, met weekly in each other's homes,* discussed Marxism, united-front politics. Teachers Union affairs, how to vote in faculty elections. "It would be wrong to say," he explained, "that there was any deep-dyed plotting in these discussions." They also got reading assignments. Required reading: The Daily Worker, Life of Karl Marx, Earl Browder's Communism in the U. S. For dues ($25 a month), party literature, "Red Front" funds and the like, Dr. Grebanier shelled out $500 a year, more than 10% of his salary. On one occasion...
Next day, Brooklyn's radicals began to picket President Gideonse's home and office, by telephone. Their calls jammed his office switchboard, got him out of bed at home at 2 in the morning. Pickets also sent President Gideonse telegrams, had them delivered in dead of night. Said one, scaring Mrs. Gideonse out of her wits...