Word: melchior
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...nation's top milliners pooled their talents to pick "the best chapeaued women of America." Among the winners: Mrs. Lauritz Melchior, Cinemactress Gloria Swanson, Mrs. Bennett Cerf, Actress Sarah Churchill, Comedienne Gracie Allen...
...when Tenor Lauritz Melchior was taken ill before a scheduled matinee performance of Siegfried...
Also in Houston, where he was named an honorary Texan, Lauritz Melchior took a verbal poke at Metropolitan Opera Manager Rudolph Bing. Had he and Bing yet worked out a new contract at the Met? Cracked Melchior: "I recently became a lone star, and this honorary citizenship in the Lone Star State confirms...
...from the wings in midweek came the roar of a wounded lion. Fifty-nine-year-old Heldentenor Lauritz Melchior had heard nothing yet about a contract and he thought he should have been approached before "all the small ones." His manager fired off a telegram to Bing demanding to know by next day where Melchior stood. Replied Rudi Bing coldly: "I am not prepared to submit to ultimatums...
...Tenor Melchior promptly quit and wound up his 24 years at the Met with a switch on the oldest gag in opera: "If I don't miss the swan boat in Lohengrin Thursday night, it will be my goodbye to the Metropolitan . . ." After the performance he said, "Not only as Lohengrin but as Lauritz Melchior, I have sung my swan song . . ." His fans gave him a warm ovation and tearful dressing-room farewells...