Night at the Met Delivers Pure Opera Pleasure
A Kansas observer recalls a first visit to the Metropolitan Opera. Cosi Fan Tutte thrills with Steber Thebom and Peters delivering strong voices. The writer compares Vienna and New York stages, praises backdrops and costumes, notes friendly audience energy, and hopes for a Mount Oread stop on a future tour.
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Richard Tucker
Lea Tener
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Met
Thebom
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Peters
Roberta Peters
Phi Psi
Ziegfeld
Earl Carroll
Billy Rose
Adrian
Hattie Carnegie
Lily Cache
Beatrice Lillie
Metropolitan Opera House
New York
Metropolitan Opera
Mount Oread
Atlanta
Cleveland
Oklahoma City
San Francisco
Lawrence
Hoch Auditorium
Illinois Man Leaps to Death from 20th Floor Hotel
Police report a Riverside, Illinois man Paul Wehrmeister, about 36, leaped from the Phillips Hotel's 20th floor in Kansas City. Investigators found three notes in his room and a hotel operator said he asked for a detective before the plunge. The body was found on a roof near the fourth-floor level. A break-in at Crystal Motors Trading Post on West Sixth Street was reported with nothing missing. Lloyd V. Snodgrass was fined $10 and costs for failing to yield the right of way.
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Kansas City
Phillips Hotel
Paul Wehrmeister
Riverside
Wehrmeister
Helen Zakert
Crystal Motors’ Trading Post
W. 6Th St
Lloyd V. Snodgrass
Mo. St
Expelled Austrian Bride at Ft Hays College
A 29 year old Austrian exchange student Miss Renate Nasty from Vienna was expelled from Ft Hays State College after marrying Lloyd G Furthmeyer of Hamilton Kansas. Dr Eugene Craine said she signed a contract promising not to wed while in the United States under UNESCO sponsorship.
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Ram
Ine
Unesco
Craine
U. S S
Cupid Wins Out Sssreaen Wedding Report
An incomplete notice notes a couple wedding then leaves for the groom's home at Famiton. The report lacks full names dates or locations and no contact could be reached for follow up.
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Cupid
Sssreaen
Id Hey
Ae Mira
Furthmeyer
Famiton
Pope Pius XQ Believed Suffering From Bronchial Pneumonia
Vatican sources report the 76 year old pope has been in bed since Thursday with bronchial pneumonia after initial influenza symptoms. No official treatment details released, but modern medicines such as penicillin may be used. Church aides had earlier said there was no cause for concern.
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Vatican City
Pius
Counties File Liens Against Frank Costello in Kansas
Federal tax liens totaling 388161.17 were filed in Russell Barton and Rice Counties Kansas against Frank Costello a New York resident serving time for contempt of Congress. Lynne Brodrick Wichita IRD confirms the liens cover unpaid income taxes for 1941 1942 1944 and 1945 filed at the request of the Upper Manhattan District director. Costello’s Kansas holdings are believed to be oil leases and include purchases from Larry Knohl of New York president of
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Wichitam
Kansas
Frank Costello
New York
Lynne Brodrick
Internal Revenue
Wichita
Jiews
Upper Manhattan
Russell
Barton
Rice
Costello
Larry Knohl
Bean Oil Co. Bankruptcy and Federal Tax Liens Hit Russell Kansas
Bean Oil Co. of Russell Kansas, now bankrupt, faces federal actions as Knobl is under indictment after testifying to Congress crime and tax probes. Kansas properties face liens totaling over two million dollars. Cantella convicted of contempt for refusing Kefauver Senate Crime Committee questions in 1959.
Picnic baskets used to stage lean stomachs for actors
A British firm 1G. W. Scott & Sons has developed staff-type props that simulate paunches for actors. The firm, which also invented the picnic basket in 1852, is cited by the British Information Service.
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New York
W. Scott & Sons
House Agency Seeks End To All Controls on Beef
A House subcommittee led by Rep Hill calls for immediate removal of price ceilings and other controls on beef the group says harms cattle prices Consumers gain no benefit from OPS ceilings as many retail traders see current ceilings as fair and do not reduce prices quickly The statement claims price controls violate the Defense Production Act policy and are unnecessary
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Washington
House
Hill R-Colar
Defense Production Act
Controls to Lift from Individual Commodities Promptly
The statement argues that controls should be removed from individual commodities as soon as they can be dispensed with safely, emphasizing a swift move toward deregulation where safety allows. The remark stresses practicality and timely policy adjustment.
Japanese Police Catch North Korean Fugitives
North Korean war prisoners escaped a compound on Koje Island on Friday and were captured by Japanese police on Tsushima Island. A UN POW Command spokesman in Pusan said he did not know how they escaped. Asahi cited Japanese police saying the fugitives commandeered a South Korean boat, ran out of fuel, and ashore on Tsushima some 50 miles away.
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Koje Island
Tsushima Island
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Pusan
Asahi
Kore
Tsushima
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