Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...program will feature music by Bach, Bodenseatz, and Brahms. Dr. Woodworth will play several selections on the organ, in addition to leading the choral ensemble. The "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's Messiah" will be the concluding number...
Warning of our own lack of planes designed and tested for high-altitude combat, Fulton advised further training of pilots for this type of fighting. He urged a speeding up of aircraft production, and accused labor unions of treason and sabotage in delaying phases of the defense program...
...publish the banns. In Detroit Mr. Berle read a Presidential message to a conference of Seaway supporters: "The United States needs the St. Lawrence Seaway for defense . . . tremendously needs the power project which will form a link in the Seaway . . . to produce aluminum and more aluminum for the airplane program which will assure command...
...Seaway is not navigable; warships completed in Lake yards during the winter would be locked in until the spring thaw. Said the New York Times, scrutinizing both power and navigation problems: "The St. Lawrence project should be judged not as something vitally necessary in carrying out our defense program or aiding Great Britain but as one of many PWA undertakings that ought to be abandoned in favor of more urgent enterprises...
...Metropolitan had taken a deep breath, returned Masked Ball to its rightful Sweden. Riccardo (Tenor Jussi Bjoerling) was further identified on the program as Gustave III. But the Met's restyling stopped there. The chorus, singing in Italian, hailed the king as "son of England." The conspirators (historically Counts Horn and Warting) were still Samuel and Tom, although no longer black. In three out of Masked Ball's five acts, the scenery (by one Mstislav Dobujinski) was the traditional Metropolitan mud color. But the 18th-Century costumes were excellent. The production cost about $35,000. The opening night...