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...Paris, Composer Gustave Charpentier, 89, was honored at the 50th anniversary of his opera, Louise. The Opera-Comique gave a gala performance of the show, and Charpentier himself, doing a bit of conducting, rated bravos from audience and cast...
...excitement still. Whispered one anxious artist in a thick Italian accent: "Do you know the words to this For He's a Jolly Good Fellow?" Replied another: "I don't even know the melody." Nevertheless, when the curtain went down on Tosca, then up again on a gala pageant of recent Met history, every singer present seemed to roar it out like a native, and from the heart. There was good reason for their fervor: the pageant was the Met's farewell to pink-cheeked, white-haired General Manager Edward Johnson, who will retire when Manager-Designate...
...London saw the change. The Daily Express reported as soberly as it could: "At the end of the lovely pas de deux ... so tense was the audience that one could hear the trickle of the tiny stage fountain above the closing notes of the clarinet." Last April, after a gala performance for Queen Elizabeth, the Evening Standard described the new Fonteyn: "Discarding the steely glitter that has sometimes divorced her from our deepest affections, she danced with simplicity, great feeling and unrivaled grace...
Taking over almost four full sections, the senior class has geared itself for a gala weekend while pushing lower classmen down towards the end zone under the new "first come, first served" system of distributing ducats...
That night at the gala dinner, the politicos had their happy fill of virtue, curried shrimp and good cheer. Harry Truman kidded Vice President Alben Barkley about his St. Louis girl friend, and McGrath introduced the Veep, to great applause, as "the squire of Paducah and the new spirit of St. Louis." Barkley said imperturbably that "there has always been an inseparable connection between Kentucky and Missouri and it looks like it's going to continue-I hope...