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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Tenors the Met has had aplenty, but most are strictly platers. This year it had to scratch two: Jussi Bjoerling (because he could not get out of his native Sweden); Tito Schipa (because he returned to his native Italy at the bidding of Count Ciano). New tenors were Kurt Baum, a personable Czech (onetime heavyweight boxing champion of Prague) who showed good form in a bit in Der Rosenkavalier, and Jan Peerce, a veteran of Radio City Music Hall, who showed even more in his debut as the hero of Traviata...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: At the Met | 12/8/1941 | See Source »

Three viktorias in as many lines-and I could quote you half a dozen poems more. If I had a dollar for every German girl whose name is Viktoria, or every German boy whose name is Viktor, I should comfortably afford to subscribe for FORTUNE. Ask Vicki Baum some time, if you don't believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 1, 1941 | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

...TERRY L. BAUM Beverly Hills, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 11, 1941 | 8/11/1941 | See Source »

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