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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Facts like these got more space in Manhattan newspapers last week than Delibes' sorry show, Lakmé, with which the Metropolitan Opera chose to open its 62nd season. No one could deny that, from a social point of view, Lakmé was practically ideal: it didn't matter too much if latecomers missed the first act, or spent the last act in the bar on the Grand Tier floor-the real attraction was the second-act "Bell Song," a coloratura showpiece and practically Pons's theme song. Lakmé itself is a kind of earlier Madama Butterfly...
...sellout crowd of close to 58,000 persons will be on hand to watch the performance, and at least 20,000 others will not be present only because of the Stadium's space limitations...
Lashed to a froth by the baleful cries of ticket-hungry students, the Inter-House Dance Committee is hopefully exploring every rabbit hutch for a possible solution to the frustrating shortage of space for the Yale weekend dances. But their mightiest efforts have been snarled in the sticky web of a divided and slow University Hall chain of command that hampers a real desire for cooperation and threatens to taint the weekends of many date-laden, but ticketless students...
Although 2200 students can be accommodated at the previously scheduled dances and in the newly available Union Common Rooms, the popularity of the first big post-war weekend has far outstripped the estimates of needed space. An unexpected demand for 500 additional tickets has forced the long suffering committee into a snipe hunt for new halls...
...result of an almost impregnable separation of authority, the predicament of the Dance Committee in its search for additional space will remain insoluble without prompt aid from the House masters. The weekends of five hundred students stand in jeopardy unless the masters of Winthrop and Eliot Houses speedily set aside their fears and come to the rescue of a clamoring student body...