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Operatic Home. Manhattan Banker (and Met Angel) Otto Kahn discovered her in 1929. After hearing her sing Tosca in Oslo, he told Met Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza that she was a singer to watch. Before Gatti got around to taking this advice, Flagstad accepted a bid from Bayreuth. It was the first time she had sung outside of Scandinavia. Says she: "I was quite happy where I was. I was never ambitious. Always I wanted to be a private person...
...Angel in the Pawnshop (by A. B. Shiffrin; produced by Eddie Dowling & Anthony B. Farrell) is set in a pawnshop -with all the sad variety of its wares, and all the tangled human history behind them, to draw upon. But Playwright Shiffrin has written a sentimental fantasy in which everything that doesn't seem banal seems borrowed, and in which he displays a kind of genius for crushing the life of words...
What poetry and picturesqueness Angel possesses stem from John E. Blankenchip's set and lighting, and Will Irwin's incidental music. The play itself is as devoid of charm as it is of sense, and the players do not help much. Joan McCracken is almost overbearingly girlish. Eddie Dowling - dying at the end with a bright smile and a brighter spotlight on his face - displays his habitual unconquerable benevolence, his seeming desire to bring to humanity all the year round what A Christmas Carol brings it at Christmas...
...with a quick smile, a quicker tongue and a big hello for everyone. At 45, he is president of Chrysler Corp., the second largest automaker in the world. He never lets the size of his job bother him. He likes to turn to his pretty blonde wife and drawl: "Angel, can you remember when I've ever been kept awake by worrying?" Angel always shakes her head. Says Tex Colbert: "Business doesn't worry me. It's a downright pleasure...
...beaten the odds by breaking even, Red, White and Blue would have been just another lackluster revue. But it lost at least $600,000, and thereby achieved a certain distinction. Except for 1926's The Ladder, which a free-spending angel kept running through two Broadway seasons in a nearly empty theater, Red, White and Blue was the costliest flop in U.S. theatrical history...