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...second opera was also a completely rebuilt production: Wagner's romantic The Flying Dutchman, which had not been staged at the Met in ten years. As he had for Verdi's Don Carlo, Bing went to Broadway for his designer, commissioned new sets sketched by Robert Edmond (The Iceman Cometh) Jones. Conductor Fritz Reiner polished cast and orchestra until they shone. If The Dutchman was less of a triumph than Don Carlo, it was mainly because Wagner had given the Met less of a grand opera to work with than Verdi...
...ring around Laokay, last French outpost in northern Indo-China. By one of history's ironies, the Vichy French, with Japanese consent, had built up the fortress at Laokay during World War II. Then, in the postwar years; Nationalist Chinese occupation forces had destroyed it. Now, only partly rebuilt, and held by a thin garrison of Foreign Legionnaires, Moroccans and Vietnamese, Laokay looked untenable. It was under Communist mortar fire. Its abandonment and the retreat of its garrison 160 miles down the Red River valley to the Hanoi-Haiphong beachhead seemed likely...
...Your former place of sitting," wrote King George to the members of Britain's House of Commons one day last week, "has now been rebuilt ... It is my pleasure that you do occupy the new chamber . . ." Next day, forbidden by ancient tradition to enter the premises in his royal capacity, the King slipped into Britain's new House of Commons for a quick look...
...mouse is Sicilian Mario Scelba. A lawyer and Popular Party worker before the war, he has emerged as the strongest anti-Communist force in Premier Alcide de Gasperi's coalition cabinet. He has rebuilt Italy's police into a wellarmed, well-disciplined force nearly a quarter-million strong; his famed celere, or motorized police, whizz through Italian cities in jeeps, cracking down relentlessly on Communist street brawlers. To Communists, he is Public Enemy Numero...
Columbia will prepare for its Cambridge appearance next Saturday by playing a decidedly out-manned Hobart at Baker Field. Lou Little, who rebuilt from the bottom last season, is working this fall with a fast backfield paced by sophomore Mitch Price, but just how much else the veteran coach possesses probably will not be known until the Stadium opener...