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Booster Shot. In one way, 54-year-old Dimitri Mitropoulos is just the man to give the Philharmonic a booster shot. No prima donna, he has tried to win his musicians with consideration (he does not want to be dictator, he says, but president of a republic), and by giving them the first feeling of security they have enjoyed in years. Last week all of last season's players were back in their chairs...
...through nearly 50 years of sales files and figures, pick out its "alltime favorites." Victor's selections, announced last week, seemed to put the U.S.'s musical brow somewhere between chin and navel. The first eight: Strauss's The Blue Danube (conducted by Leopold Stokowski); La Donna è Mobile, from Verdi's Rigoletto (sung by Caruso); Carry Me Back to Old Virginny (sung by Marian Anderson); Franz Liszt's Liebestraum (performed by the First Piano Quartet); Victor Herbert's Italian Street Song (sung by Jeanette MacDonald); Bluebird of Happiness (sung by Jan Peerce); Jalousie...
Mozart: Excerpts from Don Giovanni (Ljuba Welitch, soprano, with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia, 1 side LP). Next to her lurid Salome, red-haired Bulgarian Soprano Welitch gets her biggest hand at the Met in the role of the vengeance-seeking Donna Anna. A lesser man than the dashing Don would wilt before the fury of this thousand-volt voice. Recording : excellent...
Shotgun v. Pistol. Walton Walker is not a colorful prima donna, or an affable diplomat, or a profound strategist, or an egoist with a flair for drama. Military historians will probably not quarrel lengthily over his capabilities; psychologists will not find him an enigma. In World War II he fought as Patton wanted him to; in Korea, he will fight as MacArthur wants him to-however much retreats and holding actions may go against his grain. If ordered to hold, he will stand and fight to the last man, including Walton Walker. He is, in every sense of the phrase...
Soprano Rosa Ponselle, oldtime Met prima donna who once made a list of the qualifications of an ideal husband ("understanding, tolerant, trustful, romantic, sentimental, and businesslike"), announced that she was divorcing husband Carle A. Jackson, after 13 years...