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...which he writes articles on the tiny models of locomotives, generators, planes, and assorted engines he himself designs. At the drop of a soldering iron or the wrong twist of a vise, like-minded hobbyists from Havana to Hong Kong lay their problems on the workbench of this toolroom Da Vinci. Patiently, Keith answers each letter. Just as patiently, he seals a little copper box of his sister's "trinkets" in the ballasting of his brother-in-law's yacht, and agrees to take care of the couple's ten-year-old daughter Janice while the pair...
...evening. ''I've been dying for a couple of years," said she at the time, "and I wonder if there's any future in it." Mezzo Lane sang her first traditional operatic roles at Manhattan's City Center-Carmen, and Amneris in Aïda, neither of which she had ever seen. Now married to St. Louis-born Conductor Samuel Krachmalnick, Mezzo Lane has sung Carmen so frequently and exhaustingly in recent months that she has had to drop virtually everything else-even, she reports, "making love." A fiery, volatile woman, she regrets only...
...Bavaria, Singer Belleri was signed for the Met in the summer of 1910, while she was still a Munich schoolgirl. When she reported for duty that fall, she was, at 16, the youngest chorus member in Met history, made her debut in the 1910 season in Aïda, with Caruso. In those days, the chorus was bigger - 120 members - and the newest arrival was paid $24 a week, plus $2 for solos. In the present unionized chorus, Belleri earns around $155 a week and $15 to $30 for solos (although she makes only $5 extra for screaming that Turiddu...
Three Regimes. Since that first Aïda, Mezzo Belleri (who was married to Tenor Lamberto Belleri, also a longtime member of the Met chorus until his death in 1945) has appeared in more than 100 different operas, often in as many as eight performances a week. And she has witnessed three management changes - Giulio Gatti-Casazza, Edward Johnson and Rudolf Bing...
Joey's voice is heard answering quietly from backstage: "I dunno. Dean Martin is drunk; Sammy Davis hadda go to da temple; Peter Lawford's out campaigning for his brother-in-law." Hopefully, the M.C. asks: "What's Frank doing?" Joey's answer is a wise snicker. Then he makes his entrance...