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...vocalists a fortnight ago, Crooner Billy Eckstine landed safely at the top of both lists (TIME, Dec. 25). Last week a coast-to-coast Gallup poll reported that the man in the street didn't agree with the jazz fans. The popular favorite, after 25 years, was still Bing Crosby.* Billy Eckstine rated only tenth place, well behind such old standbys as Perry Como, Dennis Day and Nelson Eddy...
General Manager Rudolf Bing, who has already livened up the staid old Metropolitan Opera with an infusion of vitamins, last week gave the Met a shot of champagne-and one of the greatest triumphs of its 67 years. For his third new production of the season, he resurrected that bubbly old favorite, Die Fledermaus, of Johann Strauss (the Younger), which had not been heard at the Met since 1905. As he had with Verdi's Don Carlo (TIME, Nov. 13), Bing rechristened it with just the right flourish by enlisting some bright new help imported from Broadway...
When the curtain was down, the audience gave cast, conductor, director and designer their due. Then they set up a clamor for "Bing, Bing," until the man they really wanted to thank came out for an embarrassed...
...tackling Faust, Bing and Tudor had reversed a 31-year Met precedent. In 1919, principally because Faust seemed entirely long enough (three hours) without it, the Met had dropped the 17-minute Walpurgis Night bacchanale that opens the fourth act. Most European opera companies (Paris is one exception) also ignore the number. But to Manager Bing, the ballet in which Helen of Troy, Cleopatra and other famous beauties appear at the summons of Mephistopheles to tempt Faust seemed an integral part of the opera...
Among the oldtimers, Bing Crosby dropped from third to sixth place in Down Beat's poll, and tumbled from twelfth to 17th in Metronome...