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...never believe anything until it happens," says Mattiwilda Dobbs. But she is already scheduled to sing the big coloratura role in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos at the Glyndebourne Festival next summer. Her records of Mozart's Zaide (Poly-music) and Bizet's Pearl Fishers (Renaissance) are winning top notices. Impresario Sol Hurok, who is bringing her back to the U.S. next season, has his eye fixed on the Metropolitan for Mattiwilda...
...Jungfrau auf dem Dach* will cost only about 15% more to film than the English picture alone, and the extra shooting time will come to only about ten days...
Last week Communist propagandists, in a German book called Auf dem Kriegspfad (On the Road to War) reprinted long excerpts from the general's journal, proved their authenticity with photostats of Grow's handwriting. The general's puerile entries fitted perfectly into the Communist line that the U.S. is "plotting World War III." Samples...
When an overzealous audience at the Edinburgh music festival began to applaud during a two-bar rest in Ariadne auf Naxos, terrible-tempered Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham whirled and shouted, "Shut up!" The audience continued applauding. "Shut up," he snarled, "you bunch of savages...
...Thomas Beecham and France's crack Loewenguth String Quartet, one performance stood out as loftily as old Edinburgh Castle itself. In King's Theatre, when the curtain went down on the Glyndebourne Opera Company's new and magnificent production of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, the audience leaped to their feet, mixed their applause with wave after wave of bravos...