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...last line of I Pagliacci, sung by a clown who has just stabbed a man and a woman...
Norway. Soprano Kirsten Flagstad, who went from the U.S. to Norway last spring and apparently got stuck there, is rumored to have sung, or to be scheduled to sing, in Vienna's run-down opera. The rumor is probably not true, unless Flagstad wished to make some gesture of sympathy toward the unhappy Viennese. The more powerful Berlin opera, which would be flattered to get Flagstad, is not popular among Norwegians. When it played in Oslo, the opera was sold out, but the house was empty. Norwegians had bought all the tickets, torn them...
...Alley has been hard at it since the U.S. entered the war, patching together patriotic songs. First number to hit the radio networks was sung by Eddie Cantor and Dinah Shore. It had been carpentered during a rehearsal of Cantor's show. Title: We Did It Before and We Can Do It Again...
Photographers last week found that Soprano Varnay lived near a poor pushcart section of Manhattan (see cut). In the past year she had sung only in three small town recitals, booked by Columbia Concerts. Last week her managers read Soprano Varnay's press notices-and got busy...
Nifty and haunting little songs from South Africa, sung for all that is in them, have made Josef Marais (pronounced Ma-ray) a favorite radio balladeer. Over an NBC-Blue network as usual last Sunday at 1:30 p.m. E.S.T. his program, African Trek, opened with a few bars of his theme song, Sarie Marais; but as a special treat this time he sang the whole thing first in Afrikaans, then in English. He could be sure of a bilingual audience, because for almost a year NBC has been sending his program by short wave to the Afrikanders...