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...Flagstad sang Isolde with the miraculous freshness they had learned to expect from her. They were grateful to Manager Johnson for brushing up the ragged Met orchestra. When he began last fortnight to put on some of his second-string operas, critics sharpened their pencils and found cause for complaint...
Much of the complaint fell upon the pretty Belgian head of Vina Bovy, the coloratura soprano who stepped into the part of Gilda in Rigoletto 24 hours before the performance when Stella Andreva caught a cold. Critics had liked her better four days earlier when she made her Metropolitan debut singing Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata. Even then they felt a little uneasy about her pitch. In Rigoletto her colorless, inexact rendition of the great Caro Nome and her literal, lifeless acting convinced few that she was the outraged, unhappy daughter of a court fool. Lawrence Tibbett...
Things were getting pretty desperate. Finally came the request for "I Don't Want to Go to Bed." "Well, well," said the announcer, "Roger Merriman voices a cheerful complaint "I Don't Want to Go to Bed.' Well, stick with us, old boy. Sorry we haven't your record...
...flown as many as 30 planes a day over this mountainous, two-hour route with a reliability comparable to the Pennsylvania Railroad's service between New York and Philadelphia. Pacific businessmen fly United as naturally as they take taxis. Until last week they had no other cause for complaint than that United pilots, nonchalant from long experience, sometimes skimmed startlingly low over the tumbled Tehachapi Mountains. Last week it became United's turn to demonstrate that "pride goeth before destruction." Skimming over the Teha-chapis only 20 miles from Los Angeles' Union Air Terminal at Burbank, Flight...
Bitter and frequent is the complaint that the Securities & Exchange Commission tends to try its cases in newspapers before they are tried in courts. A crackdown from SEC begins with published charges based on what SEC "has reason to believe and does believe." Invariably the crackdown makes headlines, while the routine denial of the unhappy crack-downee is buried at the bottom of the column. Particularly irritated by this procedure because the firm was just getting on its feet after a severe Depression deflation was Otis & Co. Cyrus ("The Great") Eaton's Cleveland banking house which was charged last...