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...into Jones's farmhouse, and the glorification of the Leader (as Comrade Napoleon was now called) became systematic. Hens were sometimes heard to say: "Under the guidance of our Leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days." The Beasts of England song was no longer sung; the rage now was a rhyme called Comrade Napoleon...
...Peerce for Rodolfo. For the second feminine lead (Musetta) he had tried out 30 women, was satisfied with none. Then Met Conductor Wilfred Pelletier, who teaches at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, suggested a 20-year-old, plump, black-haired pupil of his, who so far had sung only in church choirs. At the tryout, Anne sang the one bit of Bohème she knew: the famous second-act waltz song...
Berlin's new hit is actually 13 years old. It was first sung in 1933 by prisoners in the Börgermoor concentration camp as they marched off to drain the nearby peat bogs. Prisoners secretly wrote it on barracks walls, whispered it at slave labor chores; it became the favorite song of the German underground. Anti-Nazi Germans took it to Spain with them, taught it to their comrades in the International Brigade. As The Peat-Bog Soldiers it was brought to the U.S. by Loyalist veterans, recorded by Paul Robeson...
...program opened with the dreamy old song, Won't You Wait Till the Cows Come Home, accented by the tinkle of a cowbell and the recorded moo of a Jersey heifer. It closed with a gooey, sentimental ballad called Contented, sung by a weepy-voiced tenor ("I'm on heaven's own doorstep, so contented with you"). Between the moo and the mush, the Carnation Milk Co. poured out a half hour of semi-classical music as thick and sweet as its product. To keep its Contented Hour flowing smoothly, Carnation also hired such big names...
...sterile part. The other 45 actors named in the program are mainly character bit players who are competent but have little chance to become outstanding; perhaps Rex O'Mailey was most noticeable because of his Gilbert-and-Sullivan-like song in the first act (the only solo, incidentally, not sung by Brynner or Miss Martin...