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...that Glyndebourne could not reopen on its old affluent basis: taxes had reduced Christie's purse, and austerity made the whole idea out of the question. Bing hit on a solution: if Glyndebourne could no longer afford large productions, it could afford small ones. Young British Composer Benjamin Britten's The Rape of Lucretia (TIME, June 9, 1947), which requires next to no scenery, only a handful of singers and an orchestra of twelve, reopened Glyndebourne...
...months behind schedule, the Eliot Bridge across the River near the House football fields will open for traffic "sometime next week" according to Benjamin W. Fink, chief engineers of the Metropolitan District Commission...
...unless the Supreme Court should throw out their conviction for conspiracy. Membership had shrunk (from 80,000 last year to no more than 55,000). But none of this had dulled the U.S. Communists' love for Russia or their hatred for the American form of government. Big, boisterous Benjamin J. Davis Jr., one of the party's top Negro leaders, left little doubt of that...
Married. Ethel du Pont Roosevelt, 34, heiress to a Du Pont chemicals fortune, divorced wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.; and Benjamin S. Warren Jr., 38, Detroit lawyer; both for the second time; near Wilmington...
...Make an Opera (music by Benjamin Britten; book & lyrics by Eric Crozier; produced by Peter Lawrence and the Show-of-the-Month Club), which closed at week's end, was half harrowingly cute, half harmlessly dull. At the start, some children and their elders decide to produce an opera, using the audience for chorus. While the cast rehearses in "the school auditorium," Musical Director Norman Del Mar flirtatiously coaches the onlookers through various songs-one of which turns the audience into owls, chaffinches and turtledoves. After that, the opera itself-a period tale about a chimney sweep-is performed...